The prime brass of the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association (TNCA) is making a critical bid to signal celebrated home coach Chandrakant Pandit for the highest job within the State senior cricket staff from the subsequent season onwards.
The Mission? To win the coveted Ranji Trophy, that Tamil Nadu has been desperately in search of to regain because it final triumphed in 1988.
Sportstar has learnt the TNCA is in contact with Pandit, who, by the way, was roped in by Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) as its head coach for the approaching season.
Pandit might nonetheless be accessible for Tamil Nadu because the dates of the IPL and the Ranji Trophy don’t conflict. Unless KKR insists on Pandit guiding its groups within the South African and the Caribbean Twenty20 leagues, he ought to be free for the Ranji season.
The wily Pandit who performed with restricted success for India as a wicket-keeper batter and a specialist batter within the mid-Eighties and early Nineties has made a reputation for himself as a robust coach who delivers ends in home cricket.
And he does that with unheralded groups. He coached Vidarbha to back-to-back Ranji titles. And final season Pandit enabled Madhya Pradesh, in opposition to all odds, to triumph within the Ranji Trophy.
No surprise, he’s known as the ‘Miracle Man’ of Indian home cricket. His contract with Madhya Pradesh ends this season and it’s the proper time for Tamil Nadu to seize him.
However, somebody like Pandit doesn’t come low cost and the TNCA should loosen its purse strings significantly.
And Pandit is a battle hardened no-nonsense coach who would need whole management of the staff with no outdoors interference.
The good factor is Pandit would take over the Tamil Nadu staff with none membership or participant loyalties which have, previously, proved detrimental to the facet.
And he doesn’t tolerate any prima donnas within the staff. All are equal, and all have a delegated position to play. His clear position definition is an attribute that has given him plenty of success.
If he’s signed by Tamil Nadu, he would come with none baggage of native divisions and politics.
Once he will get the form of gamers he asks for, Pandit’s means to encourage and encourage the cricketers are well-known.
If Tamil Nadu is unsuccessful in getting Pandit, it might effectively proceed with the current incumbent M. Venkataramana. After all, as soon as the captaincy change occurred, Tamil Nadu gained each its final two matches of the Ranji league.
The coming days shall be fascinating.
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com