New Delhi: In a huge set back to former Indian captain and team director Ravi Shastri, Karnataka’s hero and former India leg-spinner Anil Kumble has been appointed as the new Team India head coach by the BCCI.
BCCI President Anurag Thakur on Thursday named former India skipper Anil Kumble as the head coach of the national cricket team for the next one year.

The decision was taken after Sourav Ganguly, one of the members of the BCCI’s Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) also comprising Sachin Tendulkar and V.V.S. Laxman, met Thakur and Secretary Ajay Shirke at the ongoing cricket conclave here.

Kumble’s first assignment with the national team will be the gruelling four-match Test tour to the West Indies next month.

The team was without a coach since ICC World Twenty20 which ended in the first week of April.

The other names doing the rounds were Ravi Shastri, Sandeep Patil, Vikram Rathour, Pravin Amre, Venkatesh Prasad, Lalchand Rajput, Stuart Law and Tom Moody.

As per the news reports, Shastri was the frontrunner for the top job, but Kumble impressed the advisory committee with his presentation.