Team India coach: Shastri top contender, six to be interviewed

Former team director Ravi Shastri will be the front-runner when the three-member Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) meets in Mumbai on Monday to scrutinise candidates for the high-profile job of Indian men’s cricket team coach.

For the record, BCCI received 10 CVs — Shastri, Virender Sehwag, Tom Moody, Richard Pybus, Dodda Ganesh, Lalchand Rajput, Lance Klusener, Rakesh Sharma (Oman national team coach), Phil Simmons and Upendranath Bramhachari (engineer with no cricketing background).

As per sources, the six likely candidates are Shastri, Sehwag, Moody, Simmons, Pybus and Rajput.