As per reports in Cricbuzz, the BCCI is looking for a batting coach for the current Indian team under Gautam Gambhir. While the official confirmation is yet to come, the support staff might be increased.
The Indian team's repeated batting collapses in the Test series against Australia, might have prompted the management to take the decision. The decision was arrived at the recent BCCI review meeting last Saturday.
The Indian coaching staff currently has Gautam Gambhir as the head coach, Morne Morkel as the bowling coach and Abhishek Nayar as the Assistant coach, and T Dilip as the fielding coach.
The Indian coaching staff was heavily criticised by Sunil Gavaskar the former Indian skipper for not working with the Indian batters as they struggled in the series.
"I don't know about merit in having different coaches. That is something, you know, that we need to look at in a different scenario, not right now. But surely questions have to be asked of him (Gambhir) and his coaching staff. What were they doing that we had this situation where we are losing, losing, losing?" Gavaskar said In a chat with India Today.
"Because we have lost when we should not have in India against New Zealand. The batting over there was pretty ordinary. The batting over here has been pretty ordinary. So I do believe that I think questions need to be asked about that," he further added.
Gavaskar's comments came after Virat Kohli was repeatedly dismissed playing against balls outside off stump. Indian skipper Rohit Sharma only scored 31 runs across five innings.
Need For Batting Coach Stemmed Up From Rohit, Virat's Failure In Australia
The role of support staff was discussed in the review meeting in Mumbai on January 11. The exact nature of the discussion on support staff cannot be confirmed but the respective coaches will be addressed differently and they are to be told to apply a new method of coaching.
The decision to add a batting coach to the coaching group has stemmed up, particularly after Rohit and Virat's underwhelming performance in Australia. The last batting coach India appointed was Vikram Rathod who worked well alongside Rahul Dravid.
