The BCCI’s recently inaugurated Centre of Excellence (COE, earlier NCA) is expected to witness a few changes in composition of its staff in coming few months after Sports Science and Medical team head Nitin Patel recently tendered his resignation after a successful stint of nearly three years. While Patel was unreachable for a comment, a senior BCCI official confirmed the development to PTI that one of the senior-most staffers of NCA is indeed “moving on”.
“Yes, Nitin has resigned as head of Sports Science and Medical Team. Nitin had a very good stint with BCCI and especially during this tenure, where he was instrumental in set-up of Sports Science and Medical team at NCA,” a senior BCCI source told PTI on condition of anonymity.
“One good thing that happened in the past couple of years is that whenever any injured player did his rehab, he only came back when he was more than hundred percent. Nitin’s family lives abroad and managing COE’s sports science and medical division is 365-days-a-year assignment,” the source added.
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Some of the notable injury management assignments which Patel dealt, include India’s pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah, senior speedster Mohammed Shami, senior batter KL Rahul, lead spinner Kuldeep Yadav to name a few.
The source said that a few Level 3 coaches and instructors along with some of the S&C coaches (Strength and Conditioning) coaches could make a move in some months time.