In an extensive chat with select members of the media, Anil Kumble, the former India captain and one of the Game’s legends, spoke about his first foray into coaching, key players, pitch, media and the resultant scrutiny.
Seated inside a cabin located in the National Cricket Academy within Bengaluru’s M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, perhaps his second home for a large part of his life, Anil Kumble exuded an air of assurance. It is a trait that he always had as a player and that attribute was very much in evidence as he held forth now as coach of the Indian team.
The start has been smooth — a 2-0 Test series triumph in the West Indies — but a gruelling home-run with 13 Tests awaits Virat Kohli’s men, besides the ODIs and Twenty20s under M. S. Dhoni. Kumble believes that the team is ready.
In an extensive chat with select members of the media, the former India captain and one of the game’s legends, spoke about his first foray into coaching, key players, pitch, media and the resultant scrutiny.
Excerpts. Splitting Kumble the champion from Kumble the coach
I understand there is a lot of attention because of the stature and what I have been able to do as a player. That’s the first thing I told the team. I said, ‘Forget about what I have done as a player. Yes, it is there, but now I am the coach and I am like an elder brother to all of you. It’s just that I have the experience and the wisdom, hopefully, of doing the right things or the wrong things over the last 18 years and that’s something that you guys can just come in and ask. That I will share as we go along based on what we require on the field and off the field.’
And I look at it that way. I know everybody else looks at it very differently, but I certainly look at it that way. And with the players, it is going to take some time for them to look at it that way as well. Obviously, they look at me as someone who has played for India that long and now he is the coach. So I think that comfort will happen over a period of time.
A coach’s maiden steps
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