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The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has sacked bowling coach Venkatesh Prasad and fielding coach Robin Singh on Thursday.
The board said, "The BCCI has decided to discontinue the services of bowling coach Venkatesh Prasad and fielding coach Robin Singh with immediate effect."
According to a senior board official the decision to relieve Prasad and Singh was taken after a review of the overseas performance of the team in recent months.
"It was noticed that the showing of the fast bowlers and also the fielding was not up to the mark. The board president had a meeting with coach Gary Kirsten before taking the decision."
Both Prasad and Singh had taken over as coaches since the tour to Bangladesh just after the India's disastrous World Cup campaign in 2007.
Both of them had been retained in March along with the rest of India's support staff. India performed poorly in Twenty20 World Cup in England and the Champions Trophy in South Africa because of poor fielding and wayward bowling by the fast bowlers.
The Indian Premier League (IPL) team Mumbai Indians also had recently appointed Robin Singh as coach Mumbai Indians .Prasad is currently the bowling coach of Chennai Super Kings.
