Amol Muzumdar set to become Indian women's cricket team head coach

Domestic stalwart Amol Muzumdar is set to become the Indian womens cricket head coach after impressing the Cricket Advisory Committee CAC the most during the interviews of the shortlisted candidates in Mumbai on MondayThe CAC comprising Ashok Malhotra Jatin Paranjpe and Sulakshana Naik found Muzumdars 90minute presentation most impressiveThe others who were interviewed were former Durham coach Jon Lewis and Tushar Arothe who had already served as India head coach before resigning in 2018The development comes days before the commencement of Indias tour of Bangladesh India were without a head coach since December last year when Ramesh Powar was sackedThe CAC was most impressed with Amols presentation who was very clear in his plans for the womens team The other presentations were good too but his was by far the best He will most likely be recommended for the job a BCCI official told PTIAlso Read Muzumdar Arothe frontrunners for womenrsquos cricket team head coach jobMuzumdar who was most recently the head coach of Mumbai Ranji side and has had stints with IPL franchise Rajasthan Royals and South African national team was the only one who appeared for the interview in personMuzumdars first assignment will be the tour of Bangladesh beginning July 9 India will play three T20s and as many ODIs in MirpurThe Indian womens team which has often lost highstake games from winning position in the last five years is yet to win a world titleMuzumdar who is likely to get a twoyear contract will be expected to guide the team to an elusive ICC title in Bangladesh next year when the T20 World Cup will be played in SeptemberOctoberConsidering Indias inability to close out knockout games most recently in the T20 World Cup semifinal against Australia earlier this year the new head coachs area of focus will be to improve the physical fitness of the players besides working on their mental toughnessFitness is a major area of improvement for the womens cricket team Some of the players in the national side really need to work on their fitness Muzumdar also highlighted the need to have a full fledged support staff including a mental trainerHe is fully aware of what this team needs to get to the next level the Board official addedThe next two womens ICC events are in the subcontinent Bangladesh and India and that also has gone in Muzumdars favourIndia will host womens ODI World Cup in September 2025Communication is not a problem with an Indian coach and he also has a rich experience of playing in the subcontinent conditionsMuzumdar amassed more than 11167 runs in firstclass cricket but despite piling on the runs he could never make it to the Indian teamThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever