Cricket

Mohinder Amarnath to be consultant to West Bengal

The Jagmohan Dalmiya-headed Cricket Association of Bengal on Monday appointed Mohinder Amarnath as a consultant to help the Ranji team that will fight it out in the Plate Division of the competition this season.

“After toying with the idea of a consultant and coach for Bengal seniors team, we’ve finally agreed on to appoint a consultant. Details about Amarnath’s job profile will be worked out in due course. As a consultant he need not stay for the entire season but he’ll be available depending upon his other commitments,” Dalmiya said.

“We’ll do our best to bring back Bengal into the Elite Division. Initially, after taking over, we faced a problem in which most of the seniors wanted to leave the state. They felt that by representing Bengal in Plate Division chances to make the national or India A side will be less which is a genuine reason,” he said.

“We had to convince them and then seven players (Manoj Tiwary, Ranadeb Bose, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Ashok Dinda, Wriddhiman Saha and Saurashish Lahiri) pledged to play for Bengal and give their best shot to bring back the glory days… It was a very touchy gesture from them.”

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