Patil applies for India coach’s post

“I have just applied (for the post),” Patil told PTI on Saturday. He did not confirm or deny whether anyone from the BCCI had asked him to do so. 

There was speculation that the former dashing batsman and ex-coach of Kenya had been advised by higher-ups in the Board to apply for the job as the senior selection panel headed by him has already completed most of its top-level assignments till September when his term is scheduled to come to an end. If he gets the job of head coach, he will have to quit his current job in the selection panel. The senior team has not had a head coach since the departure of Duncan Fletcher.