Former opener W V Raman was on Thursday preferred over celebrated South African Gary Kirsten for the position of India's women's cricket coach despite dissention within the administrators over the selection process, a BCCI source told PTI.
Former opener W V Raman was on Thursday preferred over celebrated South African Gary Kirsten for the position of India's women's cricket coach despite dissention within the administrators over the selection process, a BCCI source told PTI.
The 53-year-old Raman is currently a batting consultant at the National Cricket Academy in Bengaluru.
"Kirsten was the top choice for the BCCI ad-hoc selection committee but Raman got the job as the South African was not keen on giving up his plum job with IPL franchise Royal Challengers Bangalore," the official said.
Here's everything you need to know about Indian women's cricket team's new head coach:
1. Indian women's new coach hails from TN
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Born in Madras (now in Chennai) on May 23, 1965, Woorkeri Venkat Raman played for India as well as Tamil Nadu in the domestic circuit. PC: Twitter
2. Eight years of international cricket!
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Raman, a left-handed batsman, and a part-time off-spinner played 11 Tests and 27 One-Day Internationals (ODIs) for India between 1988 and 1996. He scored 448 runs at an average of 24.88 in Tests but failed to reach the three-digit mark in the 19 innings he had batted. On the other hand, he had one ODI century to his name as he ended his limited-overs career with 617 ODI runs at an average of 23.73. PC: BCCI
3. A better First-Class record
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The Madras-born cricketer had a much better record in First-Class cricket where he scored 7,939 runs including 19 hundreds and 11 fifties at an average of 45.62. PC: Twitter
4. A record-brekaing season
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Raman also had a triple century to his name in First-Class cricket. He notched up 319 runs for Tamil Nadu against Goa during the 1988-89 season. The same year, he added two more double hundreds to his account and finished the season with 1018 runs and surpassed Rusi Modi's 44-year-old record for most runs in a season. PC: PTI
5. Raman: From batting consultant to head coach
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On Thursday, former Indian opener, Raman, beat World Cup-winning coach Gary Kirsten to become the coach of Indian women's cricket team. Currently, Raman is a batting consultant at the National Cricket Academy in Bengaluru. PC: BCCI
