Kolkata: BCCI will offer a contract of 150 days per season to India’s newly appointed bowling consultant Zaheer Khan, confirmed the Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) member and CAB president Sourav Ganguly.
“Zaheer was contracted for 150 days per year,” Ganguly told reporters at Eden Gardens.
The BCCI has already said in a statement that Zaheer will work as the bowling consultant only in the overseas tours, which would be maximum of 5 months.
According to the sources, Zaheer told the CAC that he would like to work with the team for maximum of 100 days, but considering the committee’s urgence he has signed a deal for 150 days.
There was no end to controversy surrounding India cricket head coach appointment as even after Ravi Shastri was picked by CAC, there was drama surrounding the appointment of support staff.
Fresh controversy started when reports emerged on Thursday that Shastri was unhappy with the appointment of Zaheer as bowling coach as he wanted to bring his trusted man Bharat Arun for the job.
Reports in some quarters claimed the Committee of Administrators (CoA) felt that the CAC, comprising Ganguly, Sachin Tendulkar and VVS Laxman went out of their ambit in picking the coach.
Hurt by these criticism and reports, the CAC wrote a letter to the CoA chairman Vinod Rai and said the appointments were made after informing the new coach Shastri and India captain Virat Kohli.
The CoA later released a media release in the wake of the CAC letter and clarified that Zaheer and Dravid have been appointed as the consultants and they would be a part of the team during specific overseas tours.