Former Mumbai batter Amol Muzumdar is likely to become the new batting coach of the Indian women’s team ahead of the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, a report suggested.
He is likely to be given a two-year term, to begin with. The BCCI is keen on continuity, given two ICC events – the T20 World Cup in Bangladesh in 2024 and the 50-over World Cup in India in 2025 – are within this period.
Interestingly, since Ramesh Powar was unceremoniously fired as part of BCCI’s “restructuring module” in December 2022, two months before the T20 World Cup in South Africa, the team is also without a head coach. Hrishikesh Kanitkar has since been overseeing as head coach on an interim basis.
Amol Muzumdar Front-Runner For India Women’s Team Batting Coach Position
Amol Muzumdar has extensive experience of coaching in domestic as after his playing days wound up, he was the head coach of Mumbai until the 2022-23 domestic season. And was offered the position of head coach of Baroda’s senior men’s team for the 2023-24 domestic season.
Muzumdar scored 11167 runs in 171 FC matches with 30 centuries and the best score of 260. In 113 List-A matches, he scored 3286 runs with 3 centuries and the best score of 109.
Since his retirement, he has coached age-group sides at the NCA, has been at the helm for Mumbai, and has been part of the coaching staff at Rajasthan Royals in the IPL and South Africa [for their tour of India in 2019] briefly.
“The BCCI is in talks with a big name to coach the Indian women’s team. Amol is in the ‘short list’ but he is likely to become the batting coach of the side,” a reliable source told the Times of India.
Indian team will be participating in the Asian Games where they have already qualified for the quarterfinals based on their ICC T20I rankings.