Reports: Tushar Arothe resigns as coach due to fallout with senior women cricketers
According to reports, it has been revealed that Tushar Arothe had resigned from the post of Indian national womenâs cricket team coach due to his fallout with senior players of the team. He revealed that the players became complacent and have taken their place for granted in the national team.
According to reports from TOI, it has been revealed that Indian women's cricket team coach Tushar Arothe's resignation from his position came after his position became untenable due to alleged differences with some of the star players, who had protested against his training methods. Senior players Mithali Raj and Harmanpreet Kaur, captains of India's ODI and T20 sides, met the Committee of Administrators (CoA) in this regard, who then summoned the former Baroda cricketer.
On Monday night, a âdisappointedâ Arothe, who had coached India during that memorable campaign last July, resigned from his post. The fallout with senior players in the team had taken its toll on him.
"There's no hard feelings between the players and myself and any other support staff. I'm quitting due to personal reasons. I wish the girls well in the forthcoming series (three ODIs and five T20Is in Sri Lanka) and in the World Cup and make India proud," Arothe told ToI from Bangalore.Â
As per reports, one of the issues being pointed out by the players was his practice schedules. While Arothe wanted two net sessions per day, the players wanted a single, long, grinding practice session in a day. "You can't allow practice methods to be dictated by the girls. If these girls want to achieve something, they need to come out of their comfort zone. They don't want to do that. The BCCI should not entertain such requests from cricketers (to change the coach)," laments Arothe.
A similar incident happened with the men's cricket team as well. Virat Kohli had allegedly had a problem with former coach Anil Kumble because of which he was removed from his post. Incidentally, the BCCI had hired Arothe after sacking Purnima Rau as their women's team coach at the behest of the players. Elaborating further about the practice sessions, he said, "These girls didn't want to come out of the dressing room for a two-and-a-half hour practice session. How would they have trained in a longer, four-hour session."Â
He was also disappointed by the manner in which the BCCI, read the CoA, have handled the whole affair. "Why were we (him and players) called separately to sort this out? Everyone should have been called together for this meeting, which should have been held in an open forum. They called the captains of the ODI (Mithali Raj) and the T20 (Harmanpreet Kaur) teams, and a selector (Hemlata Kala) who wasn't even on tour. They should have also called the vice-captain (Smriti Mandhana), Jhulan Goswami, who's a senior player, and the selector (Shashi Gupta) who went to the Asia Cup, and praised my work there. I don't think the girls spoke the truth in the meeting," he fumed.
Arothe reckoned that a few players have become complacent, due to lack of options to replace them. "There's hardly any competition. There are no players in the pipeline, so those in the side, though they are good, have taken their places for granted. Even if they do get dropped, it's easy for them to make a comeback."