{"id":15252,"date":"2016-06-23T14:43:56","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T13:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=15252"},"modified":"2016-06-23T14:43:56","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T13:43:56","slug":"new-coach-of-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/23\/new-coach-of-india\/","title":{"rendered":"New Coach of India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>45-year-old Anil Kumble, has no international or first-class coaching practise but is India\u2019s primary Test wicket taker with 619 wickets in 132 games.<\/p>\n<p>However, India have appointed him as their new head coach on a one-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>India haven\u2019t had a head coach since Duncan Fletcher left after the 2015 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Former Team Director Ravi Shastri has managed India&#8217;s latest World Twenty20 and Asia Cup operations.<\/p>\n<p>Kumble formerly served as the Cricket Committee Chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC) from 2012 to 2016 after retiring from cricket.<\/p>\n<p>A panel encompassing former players Sachin Tendulkar, VVS Laxman and Sourav Ganguly made the verdict to assign Kumble after an 18-month pursuit.<\/p>\n<p>India won the 2013 Champions Trophy with Fletcher but suffered from a 3-1 defeat in the Test series in England in 2014 and were unsuccessful in defending their World Cup title.<\/p>\n<p>Under Shastri&#8217;s leadership they touched the semi-finals of the World Twenty20 in March, with Captain Virat Kohli becoming the ICC number-one ranked T20 batsman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>45-year-old Anil Kumble, has no international or first-class coaching practise but is India\u2019s primary Test wicket taker with 619 wickets in 132 games. However, India have appointed him as their new head coach on a one-year deal. India haven\u2019t had a head coach since Duncan Fletcher left after the 2015 World Cup. Former Team Director [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":15253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}