Prasanna 'disappointed' with CAC's drama
13 July 2017 9:56 PM IST
Former India off-spinner Erapalli Prasanna on Thursday said he is "disappointed" with the three-member Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) —comprising Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and V.V.S. Laxman — for dilly-dallying over choosing the national cricket team's new coach.
On Tuesday, news broke first that Ravi Shastri had been named the India coach but hours later Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Acting Secretary Amitabh Choudhary deniedthe same.
Later that day, Shastri was officially announced as the coach along with Zaheer Khan as bowling consultant and Rahul Dravid as overseas batting consultant.
Miffed with the actions of the CAC, Prasanna said there was no need of theatrics and the trio could have directly named Shastri, as he was the obvious choice.
"There was no need for such drama. Shastri was always going to be the choice," Prasanna said.
"I am disappointed with the CAC. They are three legendary cricketers and they should not have taken such a long time to name the coach. A consensus should have been reached, and from what I have been reading, they could not come to a unanimous decision and it was all done at the last minute," said Prasanna, who was part of the famed spin quartet also involving Srinivas Venkataraghavan, Bhagwat Chandrasekhar and Bishen Singh Bedi.
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