{"id":5514,"date":"2007-06-12T00:28:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T18:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=1149"},"modified":"2007-06-12T00:28:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-11T18:58:00","slug":"the-next-indian-cricket-coach-apj-abdul-kalam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/the-next-indian-cricket-coach-apj-abdul-kalam\/","title":{"rendered":"The next Indian cricket coach: APJ Abdul Kalam"},"content":{"rendered":"
Now that Graham Ford has turned down<\/a> the chance to coach India’s cricket team, who should the BCCI turn to? Himanshu Gupta<\/a> writes in to suggest APJ Abdul Kalam’s name. His reasons:<\/p>\n 1. Abdul Kalam can give inspirational speeches (not like mangoes<\/a>), so he can do a better job of India coach rather than Graham Ford who was supposed to give speeches only to players. <\/p>\n 2. He’ll write one bestseller book: Indian cricket team in 2020<\/i>. Revenues will give the BCCI huge financial strength and money through legal avenues. <\/p>\n 3. He’ll make Dhoni realize that there’s more to cricket than growing long hair by giving him sufficient competition.<\/p>\n 4. A coach’s job can’t be scrutinized through RTI<\/a>. So, as is obvious, Abdul Kalam also will love to have this job.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n I agree with Himanshu, and have an addition to make to his list of reasons: Kalam can continuously motivate his players by reading out his poems<\/a> in the dressing room. There’s no way a batsman out in the middle would then want to return to the pavilion.<\/p>\n I also suggest that the BCCI give Kalam a large enough budget to conduct a space program on its behalf. He can then send some of our players to Mars<\/a>, which would not be entirely a bad thing.<\/p>\n On the other hand, even a Mango would make a good coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Now that Graham Ford has turned down<\/a> the chance to coach India’s cricket team, who should the BCCI turn to? Himanshu Gupta<\/a> writes in to suggest APJ Abdul Kalam’s name. His reasons:<\/p>\n 1. Abdul Kalam can give inspirational speeches (not like mangoes<\/a>), so he can do a better job of India coach rather than Graham Ford who was supposed to give speeches only to players. <\/p>\n 2. He’ll write one bestseller book: Indian cricket team in 2020<\/i>. Revenues will give the BCCI huge financial strength and money through legal avenues. <\/p>\n 3. He’ll make Dhoni realize that there’s more to cricket than growing long hair by giving him sufficient competition.<\/p>\n 4. A coach’s job can’t be scrutinized through RTI<\/a>. So, as is obvious, Abdul Kalam also will love to have this job.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n I agree with Himanshu, and have an addition to make to his list of reasons: Kalam can continuously motivate his players by reading out his poems<\/a> in the dressing room. There’s no way a batsman out in the middle would then want to return to the pavilion.<\/p>\n I also suggest that the BCCI give Kalam a large enough budget to conduct a space program on its behalf. He can then send some of our players to Mars<\/a>, which would not be entirely a bad thing.<\/p>\n On the other hand, even a Mango would make a good coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,4,10],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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