There are only a few sharper brains than WV Raman: Mohammed Azharuddin

Former India captain Mohammed Azharuddin on Sunday threw his weight behind WV Raman, saying there are only a few sharper brains round in cricket than the recently-removed ladies’s nationwide workforce coach.
In a stunning transfer final week, former spinner Ramesh Powar changed Raman because the Indian ladies’s cricket workforce’s head coach.
While the transfer shocked many, Azharuddin too totally backed his former India teammate Raman, who has represented the nation beneath the trendy Hyderabadi’s captaincy.
“WV Raman’s knowledge of the game and coaching skills can be very useful for many. There are very few sharper brains than him and he has many years of experience. Hyderabad cricket association will do its best to engage him and draw immense benefit,” Azharuddin tweeted.
Raman’s unceremonious ouster opened a can of worms with each the Madan Lal-headed Cricket Advisory Committee and Neetu David-led choice panel coming beneath the scanner of BCCI bigwigs.
Raman, who efficiently coached the ladies’s workforce to T20 World Cup closing in Australia and is extensively acknowledged as among the best Indian coaches, was eliminated by Lal and Naik’s CAC, which reinstated Powar, who was additionally faraway from the identical put up in 2018 following a bitter fallout with ODI captain Mithali Raj.
Following his ouster, Raman alleged {that a} “smear campaign” towards him has gained unwarranted traction and urged the BCCI president Sourav Ganguly to intervene.
In a mail that has additionally been marked to National Cricket Academy head Rahul Dravid, Raman wrote it is going to be “extremely disconcerting” if his candidature was rejected as a result of causes aside from “my incompetency as a coach”.
“I presume you might have been told different views about my style of functioning and work ethic. Whether those views conveyed to the officials of the BCCI had any impact on my candidature is of no consequence now,” Raman wrote within the letter.
“What is important is that the smear campaign seems to have gained some unwarranted traction with some BCCI officials which needs to be halted permanently. I am prepared to give an explanation should you or any of the office bearers require it.”