MUMBAI: Former India and Mumbai leg-spinner Sairaj Bahutule has quit the BCCI‘s Centre of Excellence in Bengaluru due to personal reasons.
Bahutule was the bowling coach at the CoE since November 2021. Friday was his last day in ‘office.’
“Yes, I have quit the COE due to personal/family reasons. I am thankful to former BCCI secretary Jay Shah, BCCI, Rahul Dravid (previous head of COE) and VVS (current head of COE) for giving me the opportunity to work with India’s top spinners across formats. I was with the India/India A and India Under-19 teams in at least in 20 series/tours. I thoroughly enjoyed my three-year tenure at the NCA/COE, and my services as a bowling coach will forever be available for the BCCI,” Bahutule told TOI from Bengaluru.
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Bahutule was India’s bowling coach for their T20I series tour of South Africa in November last year and was India’s bowling coach in the last two Under-19 World Cups.
Last year, Bahutule was the head coach of the India Emerging side that took part in the Asia Emerging Cup tournament in Oman recently, and also went to Sri Lanka as a bowling coach for the white-ball series.
He was also the bowling consultant of the Indian team during the Border-Gavaskar series in February-March 2023.
Bahutule, who played two Tests and eight ODIs for India and took five wickets between 1997-2003, featured in 188 first-class matches, in which he took a staggering 630 wickets and scored 6,176 runs.
