Senthilnathan named TN senior males’s staff coach

Senthilnathan.
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Former Tamil Nadu participant and India under-19 captain M. Senthilnathan has been appointed head coach of the Tamil Nadu senior males’s staff for the upcoming home season.

Senthilnathan might be TN’s third head coach in as a few years. He replaces former India pacer L. Balaji, who was on the helm final yr.

In the meantime, one other former India quick bowler, T. Kumaran, would be the bowling coach, whereas Tanveer Jabbar will proceed because the batting coach, a task he began final yr.

The State senior staff has had a barren run in the previous couple of years and final received a title within the 2021-22 season when it clinched the Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 event.

Senthilnathan, an aggressive batter throughout his enjoying days and was a part of TN’s final Ranji Trophy-winning squad in 1987-88, has now been tasked with ending the extended drought. Dealing with tempo bowlingOne of the largest duties forward of him might be to assist deal with the TN’s batters tackling high quality tempo bowling, particularly in situations the place help is obtainable for the quicks.

Equally, managing the pacers might be one other key space for Senthilnathan, who has been the top coach of the MRF Tempo Basis for greater than a decade.

Talking to The Hindu, the 56-year-old burdened that his focus is on serving to the staff play an aggressive model of cricket.

“We wish to play fearless cricket, and I don’t need any participant to really feel the stress of enjoying for his place,” mentioned Senthilnathan.

“My function is to get the perfect out of them and create an environment the place they will simply strategy me for assist. We wish to do properly in all codecs, however sure, the Ranji Trophy is the head. On the identical time, I don’t wish to set lofty objectives, however I wish to strategy them step-by-step,” he added.

State senior choice committee (Males): Chairman: Ok. Shri Vasudeva Das; members: M. Santhosh Kumar, S. Suresh Kumar, S. Srinivason, B. Ramprakash.

State junior choice committee: Chairman: D. Girish; members: Ok.H. Gopinath, R. Suthesh, I. L. Rajkumar, A. P. Suresh Kumar, S. Chandramouli.

Teaching workers: State senior staff: M. Senthil Nathan (head coach); Tanveer Jabbar (batting coach); T. Kumaran (bowling coach).

Underneath–23: V. R.S. Guru Kedarnath (head coach); V. Maruthi Raghav (assistant coach).

U-19: V. Yo Mahesh (head coach); Ok. Varun Kumar (assistant coach); C. S. Santhosh (fielding coach).

U-16: Wilkins Vijay Victor (head coach); R. Tarun (assistant coach).