Narendra Modi, Amit Shah, Sachin Tendulkar, MS Dhoni are a number of the names utilized by fake applicants for the job of head coach of the Indian males’s cricket workforce.
The Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) has obtained greater than 3,000 candidates for the put up however The Indian Express understands that the majority of them are from faux names together with former cricketers and politicians.
Because the deadline for making use of for the put up ended on Monday (Might 27), it’s understood that the BCCI obtained a number of functions within the names of Tendulkar, Dhoni, Harbhajan Singh, Virender Sehwag, amongst different ex-cricketers. The lengthy listing additionally options the names of politicians like Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union dwelling minister Amit Shah.
On Might 13, the BCCI had invited functions for the job on Google varieties and witnessed numerous faux candidates for the put up every day.
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What just isn’t clear at this stage is whether or not the BCCI has obtained any functions from real candidates who’re within the duty.
This isn’t the primary time that the Indian board has needed to take care of faux candidates which price them loads of time to scrutinise them. In 2022 when the BCCI had invited functions for the put up of head coach, that they had obtained round 5,000 functions from imposters utilizing movie star names. Whereas the BCCI again then had requested the candidates to mail their functions, this time it used Google varieties.
“Final 12 months too, the BCCI obtained such a response the place imposters utilized and the story is comparable this time. The rationale the BCCI needed to invite functions on Google varieties is it’s simple to scrutinise the names of candidates in a single sheet,” a BCCI official mentioned.
In its commercial, the board has outlined the qualities it was searching for within the head coach of the workforce to be in cost until the 2027 50-over World Cup in South Africa.
Among the most notable necessities for the brand new head coach listed by the BCCI had been: the candidate “should be prepared to satisfy work expectations and pressures related to dealing with marquee athletes”; and they need to assist in “growing a world-class Indian cricket workforce which delivers sustained success in all situations and codecs, inspiring present and future generations of cricketers and stakeholders with their method to the sport.”
The subsequent head coach will start his tenure quickly after the T20 World Cup within the USA and Caribbean subsequent month. The incumbent Rahul Dravid, whose tenure started in December 2021, has determined towards looking for an extension.
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