BCCI president Sourav Ganguly on Thursday said that senior team’s head coach Ravi Shastri will be asked to get “more involved” in grooming talent at the National Cricket Academy “till the time he is coach”.
Ganguly’s prospective move to have Shastri in dual role, could well be an aim to create a synergy between national team and NCA.
Shastri has now had a new contract till 2021 World T20 but his terms of agreement is only working with the Indian team with an annual salary of Rs 10 crore.
“We will also create a system where Ravi’s involvement is more at the NCA till the time he’s coach. We will make it a good Centre of Excellence. We have Rahul Dravid, Paras (Mhambrey) and Bharat Arun also goes there,” Ganguly said.
However Ganguly said that Shastri is doing well as the coach even though Indian needs to address the problem of not being able to cross the final hurdle at the global events.
“He’s done well with the side. He will be with us for next two years. As I said, India need to win a world tournament. They have the ability and just need to get the last hurdle through. We will deal with it when it comes.”