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Becoming India coach 'the greatest honour' - Kumble

Wednesday, June 29 2016 by SNTV
  • India's newly-appointed coach Anil Kumble spoke in Bengaluru, southern India on Wednesday ahead of the team's tour of the West Indies in July.

    SOUNDBITE: (English) Anil Kumble, India head coach (on his appointment as head coach):

    "Yes, captaincy came pretty late in my career, I looked at that as a challenge and a great honour. And this probably is the greatest honour that you can have, to be back in the Indian dressing room again amongst all the players, it's indeed a great privilege and an honour and I know the responsibility and expectations. I'd also like to take this opportunity to thank all those people. You know, it's been overwhelming in the last three, four days. I have certainly understood the expectations that is on an Indian coach and I'll try hard to live up to that and I can certainly vouch that whatever it takes to prepare the team I will in my own way I will try and do that."

    SOUNDBITE: (English) Anil Kumble, India head coach (on Ravi Shastri's disappointment at being overlooked):

    "I was the first one to call Ravi (Shastri) after I was chosen as the head coach and you know he did a wonderful job of the Indian team and it's not about Ravi or Anil or whoever it is...it's not about the head coach, its about the players, it's about the team and from my point of view, whether it is Ravi or whether it is me, whether it is any Indian who is following Indian team, we all want the Indian team to do well, we all want the Indian team to perform at its best, we all believe that the potential is there in the Indian team to dominate in all three formats. And if I'm part of this journey, he was part of the journey, that's all I have to say...and then he was very, he congratulated me and I told him that it's a fantastic team, a young team that we have. It could be somebody else tomorrow, I'm not permanent in this role.."

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