Glenn McGrath may coach young Indian pacers in near future

McGrath may coach young Indian pacers soon

Jan 1, 2014

If everything goes out right for the MRF Pace Academy, then former Australian quickie Glenn McGrath may soon be seen in a mentors role to budding Indian pacers.

The Pace Academy, which has McGrath working as a director in its Chennai base, has already submitted a proposal to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), which if approved will see McGrath donning the mentors cap reported the Times of India.

A select band of pacers from the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bangalore will head off to Chennai to train under the watchful eyes of McGrath.

“It will be a great opportunity. I would love to work with the young Indian crop,” said McGrath who has played 124 Tests, 250 ODIs and 2 Twenty 20 matches for Australia.

When asked about the Indian bowlers failures in recent matches which also included the 4-0 loss against New Zealand in the ODI series, McGrath replied,” I haven’t seen a single bowler who can bowl six good yorkers…If he can, I am sure the batsmen won’t be able to take him apart that easily.”

Australian Joe Dawes is the current bowling coach of the Indian team.