‘There’s a reason foreign coaches don’t work in India’ – Ryan ten Doeschate gets slammed for Rohit Sharma remark

Former cricketer Priyank Panchal was not satisfied with India’s assistant coach Ryan ten Doeschate’s remarks on Rohit Sharma and Nitish Kumar Reddy during a recent news conference. Ten Doeschate spoke on the duo after the second one-day international of the three-match series against New Zealand in Rajkot.

For the uninitiated, Ryan Ten Doeschate recently cited Rohit’s lack of touch ahead of the series as the cause for his poor performances in the first two ODIs.

Regarding Reddy, the 45-year-old stated that despite being given a good opportunity to establish a name for himself in the second ODI, the all-rounder failed to capitalise on it.

In the aftermath of the assistant coach’s comments, Panchal was critical of the sensitivity of the former Netherlands cricketer’s remarks and felt the lack of understanding with the Indian cricketing ethos was the main reason why overseas coaches never found a lot of success during their coaching tenure with the Indian cricket team.

“Terrible comments by Ten Doeschate on Rohit and Nitish. There’s a reason foreign coaches don’t succeed in India. The dexterity you require to navigate through relationships here is lacking in them. Especially if they don’t have anything notable to show in their CV,” Panchal wrote on his official ‘X’ handle.

Check Panchal’s X post here