{"id":2990,"date":"2016-06-14T13:58:57","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T13:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/?p=2990"},"modified":"2016-06-14T13:58:57","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T13:58:57","slug":"anil-kumble-to-become-indias-chief-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/?p=2990","title":{"rendered":"Anil Kumble to become India&#8217;s chief coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/anilkumble.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2991\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2991 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/anilkumble-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"anilkumble\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/anilkumble-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/anilkumble.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>New Delhi: Former captain and the country&#8217;s highest wicket-taker in all forms Anil Kumble has become the biggest name to have applied for the high-profile post of Indian cricket team&#8217;s coach.<\/p>\n<p>While the BCCI has stated the number of applicants to be 57 without specifying any names, Kumble&#8217;s candidature makes it interesting as by sheer weight of his stature, he would be a few notches above former team director Ravi Shastri and chairman of selectors Sandeep Patil.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, Kumble has applied for the post and probably is the biggest name doing the rounds. His name in the mix makes it very interesting,&#8221; a BCCI official told PTI today.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about his coaching credentials, the official said: &#8220;He has been a mentor in both Royal Challengers Bangalore and Mumbai Indians. Mentors are basically extension of coaches and no one can doubt Anil&#8217;s knowledge of the game.<\/p>\n<p>He has a towering personality and every member of this current team has huge respect for him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kumble has 619 wickets from 132 Tests and 337 wickets in 271 ODIs, apart from 2506 Test match runs with an overseas hundred. He has also captained India for a year before retiring and is considered to be a credible voice in Indian cricket circles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Former captain and the country&#8217;s highest wicket-taker in all forms Anil Kumble has become the biggest name to have applied for the high-profile post of Indian cricket team&#8217;s coach. While the BCCI has stated the number of applicants to be 57 without specifying any names, Kumble&#8217;s candidature makes it interesting as by sheer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2992,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990\/revisions\/2992"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faceinews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}