Due to the recent differences between the Indian women cricketers and the head coach Tushar Arothe, the coach has finally resigned from his role. Though Arothe has no hard feelings for the players and support staff, he has expressed his unhappiness with the handling the situation by the BCCI’s CoA (Committee of Administration).

After his resignation, Arothe gives best wishes to the players for the future assignments including the upcoming major ICC tournaments.

After quitting the coaching role, Arothe told TOI, “There’s no hard feelings between the players and myself and any other support staff. I’m quitting due to personal reasons. I wish the girls well in the forthcoming series (three ODIs and five T20Is in Sri Lanka) and in the World Cup and make India proud.”

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After the rifts have been revealed at the end of the 2018 Women’s T20 Asia Cup, where Indian women team failed the first time to win the trophy as they lost in the final against Bangladesh women, BCCI has arranged two separate meetings. Arothe attended in one meeting while Indian women’s captains Mithali Raj (ODI) and Harmanpreet Kaur (T20I) were present in the other meeting.

Arothe has questioned to organise the separate meetings and expressed his dissatisfaction with handling that tough situation by the CoA.

The former Indian women’s cricket team coach said, “Why were we (him and players) called separately to sort this out? Everyone should have been called together for this meeting, which should have been held in an open forum. They called the captains of the ODI (Mithali Raj) and the T20 (Harmanpreet Kaur) teams, and a selector (Hemlata Kala) who wasn’t even on tour. They should have also called the vice-captain (Smriti Mandhana), Jhulan Goswami, who’s a senior player, and the selector (Shashi Gupta) who went to the Asia Cup, and praised my work there. I don’t think the girls spoke the truth in the meeting.”

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The main rift between the players and coach was the newly formed training methods on which the women cricketers showed their dissatisfactions.

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Arothe feels the women cricketers need to come out of their comfort zone, but they don’t want to do that.

The 51-year-old former Baroda cricketer said, “You can’t allow practice methods to be dictated by the girls. If these girls want to achieve something, they need to come out of their comfort zone. They don’t want to do that. The BCCI should not entertain such requests from cricketers (to change the coach).”