‘REACHED A POINT WHERE IT'S DIFFICULT TO HAVE ALL-FORMAT FAST BOWLERS'

NCA Bowling Coach Paras Mhambrey On Transition, Grooming Allrounders, Educating Youngsters

- Arani Basu

You have someone like Jasprit Bumrah right now. He did play the longer format but for a long while it was only the shorter format”

New Delhi: Former India pacer Paras Mhambrey has been National Cricket Academy (NCA) head Rahul Dravid’s trusted lieutenant over the past six years. He is in charge of India U-19s, India ‘A’ and a bowling coach at NCA. As Indian cricket gears up for resumption of domestic cricket and junior cricket, Mhambrey offers TOI a peek into challenges ahead for the NCA to maintain the strong pool of cricketers which has seen Indian cricket through the pandemic in the last one year.

No conventional coaching manual at NCA…

“You need to work with what you have. We have some players who have not gone through age-group cricket and formal coaching. It’s not about changing anything or going by the book, but just making a player more effective. We have to see that going by a coaching manual, you change something and then there’s a chance of the player getting injured too.”