Ajay Ratra is applying for the position of Team Coach Mumbai Ranji

MCA had overall received a very lukewarm response for the work of the coach. (Photo of Express File)

Ajay Ratra, former goalkeeper of INDIA, threw his hat in the ring for the work of the team coach Mumbai Ranji. The Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) invited candidates from the Bombay Senior and Under-19 teams to submit their applications, the deadline for which ended on Tuesday. Ratra is one of three former first clbad cricketers, Ramesh Powar and Mumbai goalkeeper Vinayak Samant, to have applied for the senior team coaching role.

Former players including Maharashtra's Nandan Phadnis, Vidarbha off-spinner Pritam Gandhe and the former Under-19 coach of Mumbai, Vinod Raghvan, learned to apply for both jobs.

Ratra was the coach of the Ranji Trophy Punjab team until last year. "I still have to get the clarity of the Punjab if they want me to continue or not.I checked with the badociation, but they told me that there was Meme it a date scheduled in the next few days.When the Mumbai invitation came out, I immediately asked.It is a big team and I felt that I could contribute more. I can share my experience and make the most of the players, "said Ratra, 36, at The Indian Express

. MCA had received a rather lukewarm response to the coaching post replacing Sameer Dighe, who resigned only a year in power. Mumbai had a disappointing domestic season last year, failing to score any competitions.

Ratra played 6 Tests and 12 ODIs, all in 2002, and remained a mainstay for Haryana behind the wickets for nearly 15 years before calling he quits first-clbad cricket after the 2012-13 season. . Powar, who played the role of spin consultant in the past, expressed his desire to coach the Mumbai team, which he has represented with great success for many years, to many opportunities in the past. His former teammate Samant, meanwhile, coached the under-23 team from Mumbai earlier

The ex-spinner Gandhe was a junior national coach while participating in the camps organized by the Zonal Cricket Academy. ] Meanwhile, the MCA has received eight applications for the role of under-19 coach. They include Suresh Shetty, Viktor Gonnade, Usman Malvi, Pradeep Kasliwal, Kiran Powar, Sandeep Dahad, Santosh Saxena and Manoj Joglekar.

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