Former captain and team director Ravi Shastri has formally applied for the India coach's job as the BCCI and Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) get ready to select the next coach for the team ahead of the Sri Lanka tour.
Before Shastri had applied, Virender Sehwag and Tom Moody were the front-runners for the top job.
The CAC - Sourav Ganguly, Sachin Tendulkar and VVS Laxman - will be interviewing the candidates on July 10.
Meanwhile, Team India made a mess of a paltry run chase where they had to chase down just 190 runs and MS Dhoni record his slowest and India's second-slowest half century.
In the Women's World Cup, India thrashed Pakistan by 95 runs and Ekta Bisht grabbed a five-wicket haul.
On the other hand, the Team Manager's report about the Champions Trophy had no word of the Anil Kumble-Virat Kohli rift while Kumble had revealed with this resignation that Kohli had problems with his 'style of coaching'.
Ahead of the Asian Athletics Championship in Bhubaneswar this week, Pakistan athletes have been granted visas for participation in the tournament but Sports Minister Vijay Goel insisted that no bilateral games should be played with Pakistan.
