Thread by @KShriniwasRao

#Thread #Cricket

It's important that credit should be given to the right individuals where 'coaching' is concerned. Let's not be blind to some leading contributions that have come from lesser-known names.
#TeamIndia #coaches

Blindly crediting a Rahul Dravid or a Ravi Shastri for years of hard work someone else has put in is not fair. Here's a list of individuals responsible for the success of Team India players...
#TeamIndia #coaches #AUSvsIND

Shubhman Gill -- his father Lakhwinder Singh.
Rohit Sharma -- his childhood coach and go-to man Dinesh Lad.
Cheteshwar Pujara -- his dad Arvind Pujara
Ajinkya Rahane -- Pravin Amre
Virat Kohli -- Rajkumar Sharma, Ravi Shastri
Rishabh Pant -- Tarak Sinha, Ricky Ponting

Mayank Agarwal -- RX Murali
Prithvi Shaw -- Santosh Pingutkar (childhood coach), Mak Waingankar (long-time mentor), Raju Pathak (Rizvi)
R Ashwin -- nobody in particular, grew in stature as he played more cricket
Jasprit Bumrah -- the Mumbai Indians set up, and Bharat Arun

Hardik Pandya -- Jitendra Singh in Baroda & Mumbai Indians set-up
Kuldeep Yadav -- Kapil Pandey
Mohammed Siraj -- Bharat Arun
Mohammed Shami -- Badruddin Siddiqui & Bharat Arun
T Natarajan -- Diwakar Vasu
Wriddhiman Saha -- Jayanta Bhowmick
Navdeep Saini -- Bharat Arun

Washington Sundar -- Hrishi Kanitkar, Bharat Arun
Shardul Thakur -- Mumbai cricket
Hanuma Vihari -- St John's Academy, John Manoj
Ravindra Jadeja -- Saurashtra cricket & MSD
Ishant Sharma -- Shravan Kumar
KL Rahul -- Samuel Jayaraj
Umesh Yadav -- Subroto Banerjee & Pritam Gandhe

These individuals need to be given credit. Coaches at the senior level are merely star polishers. Their job is to manage the players well. Coaching happens when a cricketer is just about beginning.

#BCCI #TeamIndia #Coach

And due credit to former Mumbai captain Paras Mhambrey, former India batsman WV Raman, former India spinner Narendra Hirwani -- who've put their share of hard work at the India 'A', Under-19 levels and the National Cricket Academy (NCA).

Gautam Gambhir's name should be added next to Navdeep Saini. He was the first to see potential.

Happy to make additions if there are any.