Former Saurashtra captain and batter Sitanshu Kotak is set to join the Indian men’s team next month as a batting coach. Kotak will feature in the T20I series with England beginning on January 22. He retired in 2013, having played first-class cricket for over 20 years.
Since 2019, Kotak has been a batting coach at the National Cricket Academy, a position wherein he had also served as a head coach for India A tours and assistant coach to VVS Laxman for short white-ball Indian tours.
He will be the fifth on the team under Gautam Gambhir, the head coach. In August, Gambhir was appointed head coach and hired three assistants: Morne Morkel as bowling coach, Abhishek Nayar, and Ryan ten Doeschate. T Dilip, on the other hand, will continue as the team’s fielding coach.
In response to a review of India’s series losses-pertaining to the one in Sri Lanka, New Zealand, or Australia India had suffered an ill-fated 3-0 whitewash at the hands of the Kiwis and a Border-Gavaskar Trophy loss just before that, the BCCI deemed essential a review to be conducted.
The failure was attributed predominantly to poor batting form much so that it lost steam in its efforts to get to the final of the ICC World Test Championship. A review of the outcomes was done by Gambhir with Agarkar, Rajesh, and BCCI officials as the team of experts led by Secretary Devajit Saikia.
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