Ageing and ailing team India speedster Ashish Nehra seems to have read the writing on the wall regarding his future in team India colours and is actively contemplating a mentoring/coaching role for himself.........
37 year old Nehra who is currently recuperating in London after his most recent successful knee surgery succinctly remarked that he had more or less reconciled himself to the fact that his latest serious injury had all but put a full stop to his future as an Indian cricketer and that he would take a call on the same after an enforced six month or so lay owing to the afore mentioned surgery.........
On being informed that the current team India assistant coaches Messrs Sanjay Bangar; Bharat Arun; Sridhar; team director Ravi Shastri; current chief selector Sandeep Patil; former Indian opener and current selector Vikram Rathour and former Indian cricketers Lalchand Rajput and Pravin Amre had forwarded their CV's to BCCI secretary Ajay Shirke evincing their more than keen interest in donning the mantle of team India's new team coach; Nehra quipped that he had been mentoring the new kids (young fast bowlers) in the current Indian T 20 side; IPL franchise as well as Ranji trophy side for the last four years or so and hence did not completely rule out the possibility of him assuming the role of team India bowling coach in the near future........
He also said that he would like to continue playing IPL cricket as well as domestic T 20 and 50 over tournaments if his body held up and repaired knee took the stresses and strains imposed on it post the third operation on it in the last decade or so.......
Candidly admitting the fact that either he or Zaheer Khan were most suited to don team India's bowling coach's mantle; Nehra remarked that he was more amenable to considering the role if the same was either offered to him or then if opportunity knocked on his door........
One would do well to remember the fact that the bruised and battered left arm seam and swing bowler represented the nation with rare distinction in 17 tests; 120 odd one day internationals as well as close to 25 T 20 international fixtures made a sterling comeback in Indian colours after a nearly five year long hiatus owing to a spate of injuries and breakdowns and was India's most successful bowler on the recent tours to Australia; home series against the Sri Lankans; Asia Cup and last but not the least World T 20 championship in which he was India's most successful bowler with an enviable and unimaginable economy rate of 5.94 runs per over bowled........
Here's wishing this doughty and inimitable cricketer a speedy recovery and a minimum of two more years in Indian colours (provide his ageing and creaking body copes with the pressures and pulls exerted on it) before he occupies the role of team India's bowling coach as he is more than eminently suited for the same......
37 year old Nehra who is currently recuperating in London after his most recent successful knee surgery succinctly remarked that he had more or less reconciled himself to the fact that his latest serious injury had all but put a full stop to his future as an Indian cricketer and that he would take a call on the same after an enforced six month or so lay owing to the afore mentioned surgery.........
On being informed that the current team India assistant coaches Messrs Sanjay Bangar; Bharat Arun; Sridhar; team director Ravi Shastri; current chief selector Sandeep Patil; former Indian opener and current selector Vikram Rathour and former Indian cricketers Lalchand Rajput and Pravin Amre had forwarded their CV's to BCCI secretary Ajay Shirke evincing their more than keen interest in donning the mantle of team India's new team coach; Nehra quipped that he had been mentoring the new kids (young fast bowlers) in the current Indian T 20 side; IPL franchise as well as Ranji trophy side for the last four years or so and hence did not completely rule out the possibility of him assuming the role of team India bowling coach in the near future........
He also said that he would like to continue playing IPL cricket as well as domestic T 20 and 50 over tournaments if his body held up and repaired knee took the stresses and strains imposed on it post the third operation on it in the last decade or so.......
Candidly admitting the fact that either he or Zaheer Khan were most suited to don team India's bowling coach's mantle; Nehra remarked that he was more amenable to considering the role if the same was either offered to him or then if opportunity knocked on his door........
One would do well to remember the fact that the bruised and battered left arm seam and swing bowler represented the nation with rare distinction in 17 tests; 120 odd one day internationals as well as close to 25 T 20 international fixtures made a sterling comeback in Indian colours after a nearly five year long hiatus owing to a spate of injuries and breakdowns and was India's most successful bowler on the recent tours to Australia; home series against the Sri Lankans; Asia Cup and last but not the least World T 20 championship in which he was India's most successful bowler with an enviable and unimaginable economy rate of 5.94 runs per over bowled........
Here's wishing this doughty and inimitable cricketer a speedy recovery and a minimum of two more years in Indian colours (provide his ageing and creaking body copes with the pressures and pulls exerted on it) before he occupies the role of team India's bowling coach as he is more than eminently suited for the same......
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