Virender Sehwag is the marquee name among the list of applicants for the head coach of Indian cricket team, according to news agency. Sehwag has applied for the position along with former India manager Lalchand Rajput, former Indian pacer Dodda Ganesh, Sunrisers Hyderabad coach Tom Moody and former Pakistan coach Richard Pybus.

Anil Kumble is a direct entrant into the process by virtue of being the current coach.

The three-member Cricket Advisory Committee comprising Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and VVS Laxman will conduct interviews and seek presentations to select the best possible candidate to guide the team and take Indian Cricket forward, the BCCI had stated earlier.

This comes at a time when senior players in the Indian cricket team, led by captain Virat Kohli, are not happy with head coach Kumble’s methods of guiding the side, a report by the Times of India on Tuesday claimed. According to unnamed sources quoted in the report, players were happier with former team director Ravi Shastri’s methods, with Kumble being referred to as “a hard task-master”.

A separate report on Tuesday in The Hindu quoted an unnamed official as saying, “People in the corridors of power have been told that Kumble is overbearing and doesn’t give freedom to the players.” Shastri, on the other hand, shared an excellent rapport with the players during his year-long tenure as team director.

More details to follow.