Narendra Modi, Amit Shah, Sachin Tendulkar, MS Dhoni are a number of the names utilized by faux candidates for the job of head coach of the Indian males’s cricket crew.
The Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) has acquired greater than 3,000 candidates for the publish however The Indian Categorical understands that the majority of them are from faux names together with former cricketers and politicians.
Because the deadline for making use of for the publish ended on Monday (Could 27), it’s understood that the BCCI acquired a number of functions within the names of Tendulkar, Dhoni, Harbhajan Singh, Virender Sehwag, amongst different ex-cricketers. The lengthy record additionally options the names of politicians like Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union residence minister Amit Shah.
On Could 13, the BCCI had invited functions for the job on Google varieties and witnessed a lot of faux candidates for the publish every day.
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What will not be clear at this stage is whether or not the BCCI has acquired any functions from real candidates who’re within the accountability.
This isn’t the primary time that the Indian board has needed to take care of faux candidates which value them loads of time to scrutinise them. In 2022 when the BCCI had invited functions for the publish of head coach, that they had acquired round 5,000 functions from imposters utilizing movie star names. Whereas the BCCI again then had requested the candidates to mail their functions, this time it used Google varieties.
“Final 12 months too, the BCCI acquired such a response the place imposters utilized and the story is comparable this time. The explanation the BCCI needed to invite functions on Google varieties is it’s straightforward to scrutinise the names of candidates in a single sheet,” a BCCI official mentioned.
In its commercial, the board has outlined the qualities it was in search of within the head coach of the crew to be in cost until the 2027 50-over World Cup in South Africa.
Among the most notable necessities for the brand new head coach listed by the BCCI have been: the candidate “should be keen to fulfill work expectations and pressures related to dealing with marquee athletes”; and they need to assist in “creating a world-class Indian cricket crew which delivers sustained success in all situations and codecs, inspiring present and future generations of cricketers and stakeholders with their strategy to the sport.”
The following head coach will start his tenure quickly after the T20 World Cup within the USA and Caribbean subsequent month. The incumbent Rahul Dravid, whose tenure started in December 2021, has determined in opposition to in search of an extension.
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