Delhi cricket coach’s post attracts 30 applicants

As many as 30 people, including last year’s coach Abhay Sharma, have applied for the post of Delhi’s senior cricket team coach for the 2023-24 season.

According to the list, a copy of which is with Patriot, former international cricketers Manoj Prabhakar, Ajay Sharma, Rajesh Chauhan, Parwinder Awana, Ajay Ratra, Devang Gandhi, Gursharan Singh and Bhupinder Singh Sr have applied for the post.

The candidates will be called up for interview on August 18, 19 and 20.

The selection will be done by the newly-formed Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) comprising Nikhil Chopra, Surinder Khanna and Anjali Sharma – the latter two replaced Gursharan Singh and Reema Malhotra recently.

“We will only recommend our choices to the DDCA, who will take the final call. But everyone is invited to the interview without prejudice,” said Surinder Khanna, member of the CAC.

The CAC will also decide on selectors for senior and junior men’s teams, coach for men’s junior teams, assistant coaches for men’s senior and junior teams, selectors for women’s teams, coaches for women’s senior and junior teams, team manager, physiotherapists for men’s and women’s teams and trainers for men’s and women’s teams.

Interestingly, former India batsman Surinder Amarnath, who is already 74, has also applied for the role of a senior selector. He is the oldest among the applicants.

However, there is an ongoing debate within DDCA whether the age cap meant for administrators – 70 years – should be applied to selectors and coaches.

Besides Amarnath, former international cricketers Maninder Singh and Bhupinder Singh Sr have filed in their names for the role of senior selector.

Mayank Sidana, who was part of the senior selection committee last season before it was disbanded, has also thrown his hat in the ring for the senior selector’s role.

List of applicants:

For senior men’s coach: Ramalingam Srikanth, Hemant Dogra, Pradeep Chawla, Sumit Narwal, Manoj Prabhakar, Hitesh Sharma, Dishant Yagnik, V Arvind, Puneet Bisht, Ajay Sharma, Rajesh Chauhan, Syed Tariqur Rahman, Suraj Yadav, Bantu Singh, Mohan Chaturvedi, Narender Singh Negi, Joginder Singh, Jacob Martin, P. Krishna Kumar, Parvinder Awana, Sumeet Dogra, Ajay Ratra, Devang Gandhi, Vikramjeet Singh Malik, Suman Sharma, Ashu Dani, Abhay Sharma, Rajeev Nayyar, Gursharan Singh, Bhupinder Singh Sr.

For senior men’s selectors: Rahul Dewan, Sumit Narwal, Robin Singh, Shafiq Khan, Mohan Chaturvedi, Soumik Chatterjee, Surinder Amarnath, Rajeev Vinayak, Mayank Sidana, Mayank Tehlan, Ashu Dani, Bhupinder Singh Sr and Maninder Singh.

For junior men’s selectors: Pradeep Chawla, Sumit Narwal, Robin Singh, JP Pandey, Abhishek Sharma, Adil Sarwar, Mayank Tehlan, Sonu Sharma, Devendra Sharma, Rajinder Singh Chawla, Ashu Dani, Durga Prasad Sharma.

For women’s selectors: Alka Suri, Archana, Rafat Khan, Sushma Chaudhary, Amita, Rani Ojha, Tilak Raj Sharma, Asha Rawat, Meena Ayri, Rajni Sharma, Nischal Gaur, Sonu Sharma, Sunita Sharma, Kartar Nath, Rajesh Nayyar, Deepti Dhyani, Jyoti Chopra.

For junior men’s coach: Kuldeep Rawat, Pradeep Chawla, Sumit Narwal, Sachin Aggarwal, Jaswant Rai, Manoj Chauhan, Suraj Yadav, Yogesh Nagar, Vijay Bahadur Mishra, Rishit Saini, Asjit Jayaprakasham, NS Negi, Mahesh Sharma, Rajesh Bishnoi, Saurabh Passi, Radhey Shyam Gupta, Vineeta, Sohail Rauf, Deepak Rai, Ashu Dani, Kunal Lal, Naveen Chopra, Raushan Raj.

For senior women’s coach: Pradeep Chawla, Sachin Aggarwal, Jaya Sharma, Lalita Kumari Sharma, Anju, Khyati Gulani, Neha Tanwar, Mandeep Kaur, Jasvinder Singh, Ragini Malhotra, Vineeta, Vinod Sharma, Chanchal Pawar.

For junior women’s coach: Rajiv Giri, Vaishali Mathur, Sachin Aggarwal, Manoj Chauhan, Priyanka Sisodia, Neeru Gulia, Renu Yadav, Deepak Rai.