MUMBAI: The Mumbai senior team will have a new head coach from this season.
TOI has learnt that Amol Muzumdar, who was the head coach for the past couple of seasons, hasn't reapplied for the post.
The deadline to apply for the post of coaches and selectors of all its age group teams of Mumbai, men and women, right from the senior side to the Under-14 team, ended on Thursday.
With Muzumdar at the helm, Mumbai had clinched their maiden Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy title, but exited at the quarterfinal stage of the Vijay Hazare Trophy and couldn't go beyond the league stage of the Ranji Trophy last season.
In the previous season, they were knocked out in the league stage of the white-ball tournaments, but reached the Ranji Trophy final. Seven candidates - former Mumbai wicketkeeper Vinayak Samant, ex-India stumper Sameer Dighe, ex-opener Vinayak Mane, Atul Ranade, who was the Mumbai senior team's fielding coach last season, Omkar Salvi (bowling coach at Mumbai and the Kolkata Knight Riders academy), Umesh Patwal and Pradeep Sundaram - have applied for the post of Mumbai senior team's head coach.
Kulkarni, Nayak apply for MCA selector's post
Meanwhile, former India players Raju Kulkarni and Suru Nayak are among the applicants for the post of selector of the Mumbai senior team. Kulkarni has been the chairman and member of the Mumbai Cricket Association's Cricket Improvement Committee in the past while Nayak has been a member of Mumbai's senior selection committee.
Also among the applicants for the senior team selector's post are former First-Class players Bhavin Thakkar, Kiran Powar, Ravi Thakkar and Zulfiqar Parkar.
The candidates will now be interviewed by the MCA's newly-appointed Cricket Improvement Committee, which is headed by former India opener Lalchand Rajput, and includes Sahil Kukreja and Preeti Dimri as its members. The CIC is supposed to meet on Friday.
