NEW DELHI: India’s bowling coach Joe Dawes has announced that he has parted ways with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) amicably.

Dispelling the impression in some media reports suggesting that he had been sacked, Dawes said: “It was absolutely amicable. We were involved in a process over the past two months that we had been working through.”

The BCCI had asked Dawes and fielding coach, Trevor Penney to step aside after India’s loss in the Test series in England. Ravi Shastri, the team director, then brought in Bharat Arun, Sanjay Bangar and R. Sridhar as assistant coaches.

Dawes’ contract with BCCI does not expire until next year and he was offered a role in the National Cricket Academy (NCA) but he chose to decline it.

“That was one of the options at one stage we thought about. But I decided to move on,” said Dawes who also indicated there had been a language barrier in communicating with the players.

“They (BCCI) thought there was a language barrier issue. But I had things in place to assist me with that. I have a very simple grasp of Hindi but cricket is also a universal language. I would use either the manager or one of the bowlers who spoke English to communicate. I would use Ishant Sharma all the time because he spoke good English,” he explained.

Dawes added there was no official communication in this regard and he got to know of it in one of the leaked media reports where Ravi Shastri is reported to have said the same to the BCCI.

Published in Dawn, October 29th , 2014