Dec 122012
 

New Delhi: Former Indian selector Mohinder Amarnath said that the selectors were  thinking of sacking Mahendra Singh Dhoni after Indian team’s poor performance in Australia. India lost all the four Test matches in Australia following their 4-0 whitewash in England.

“Definitely, there were discussions to replace Dhoni and people had even agreed to do so, but for some internal reason it didn’t happen. I would not like to divulge what the reasons were,” Amarnath said in an interview to Times Now.

Meanwhile, a report in The Indian Express says that Mohinder Amarnath, the North Zone selector, Central Zone’s Narendra Hirwani and East Zone’s Raja Venkat wanted to remove Dhoni from captaincy. But they did not had the support of chairman Srikkanth and West Zone selector Surendra Bhave said Raja Venkat to The Indian Express.

“Sanjay Jagdale, the BCCI secretary and convener of the national selection committee, consulted BCCI president N Srinivasan who shot down the proposal. Srinivasan made it clear that though the majority of selectors felt that Dhoni didn’t inspire confidence as Test skipper, the time was not right to remove him,” Venkat said.

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Dec 112012
 

India drawn with hosts Myanmar in Challenge Cup qualifiersNew Delhi: Nehru Cup champions India have been clubbed with hosts Myanmar, Chinese Taipei and Guam in Group A of the AFC Challenge Cup 2014 qualifiers to be played in Myanmar.

India will play their matches on March 2, 4 and 6. Wim Koevermans’s wards will be looking to top the group in order to advance to the AFC Challenge Cup to be held in Maldives.

The draw took place at the AFC Headquarters in Kula Lumpur on Tuesday. Twenty participating teams have been pooled into five groups of four, with the quartet playing against each other in a one-round league in a centralised venue.

The four group winners and two best second-placed teams will join the host nation in Maldives at the 2014 AFC Challenge Cup finals.

By Indian Sports News Network

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