A stunned BCCI today said the Board's Working Committee meeting in Delhi
tomorrow will consider the situation arising out of Graham Ford's rejection
of its offer to coach the Indian team for a year.
Reacting to Ford's decision, BCCI Treasurer N Srinivasan told reporters here that
the Board has received a message from him withdrawing his candidature and it would
be placed before the Committee tomorrow.
"He has said that he would not join us now. He has withdrawn
his candidature," Srinivasan said at a press conference, adding that "it
is for the Working Committee to take an appropriate view now." Asked what
Ford told the coach selection committee in Chennai on Saturday when he was offered
the job, Srinivasan said, "he had said that it was only a matter of letting
us know when he would join the team." Srinivasan said that they received
the communication from Ford during the meeting with the senior players on the
contracts issue.
"He said in the communication that he cannot take up the job at such a
short notice."
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