Former Australia fast bowler Brett Lee.
IANS/Melbourne
Former Australia fast bowler Brett Lee yesterday said former India skipper Sourav Ganguly would do “a great job” if made India’s new head coach.
Following Duncan Fletcher’s departure, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) will announce its new coach and revamped support staff prior to the team departing for the tour of Bangladesh on June 7.
“I think he would do a great job because he’s got a great wealth of knowledge behind him with so many games of Test match cricket, one-day cricket and Twenty20 cricket,” Lee was quoted as saying by Cricket Australia (CA).
Lee backed the former left-handed batsman for the coveted role. “He’s been there and done it all. Will that make him a good coach? I don’t know. If he’s hungry for it, with his wealth of knowledge he could definitely pass it on. Having the right balance as a coach is the most important thing,” he said.
“(Like) people being able to play their natural role, and that all started with Trevor Bayliss. He’s the guy that will allow any player in the team to play their natural role. If Sourav Ganguly can give these (Indian) players confidence, I think he’d do a good job if he got it,” the 38-year-old retired fast bowler said.
Ganguly, 42, represented India in 113 Tests and 311 ODIs, scoring 18,575 runs in both formats of the game, spanning over 16 years. He captained the side for almost five years.
SL Cricket appoint panel to probe past corruption
Sports Minister Navin Dissanayake yesterday appointed a three-member panel to investigate alleged corruption in the past cricket administrations. Ravi Algama, Jaliya Bodinagoda
and Waruna Mallawarachchi, all lawyers, have been appointed to go into the alleged past corruption in the game’s administration, Sports Ministry said.
They held their first session yesterday. The Minister’s action to appoint a probe panel follows his action to appoint an interim committee to govern the SLC administration late March. Dissanayake’s move however has come in for criticism from the world governing body ICC. They warned Sri Lanka that politically appointed interim committees run counter to the ICC policy.
The ICC held up Sri Lanka’s dues and later released a part of them upon explanation from Dissanayake the reasons behind the decision to appoint an interim committee. The new Sri Lankan government elected in January said they were keen to rid the governing body of corruption and the interim committee would reign until the probe is complete.
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said the gross mismanagement by past administrations had left the SLC in debt. It was unable to settle the bills it owed to the state.
