Whatmore to coach India at U-19 World Cup

Dav Whatmore, director of operations at India's National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bangalore, has been appointed coach of the Under-19 side at next year's junior World Cup.

Whatmore will conduct a ten-day training camp at the NCA ahead of the ICC U-19 World Cup, to be held in Malaysia from February 17 to March 2.

Whatmore oversaw Sri Lanka's rise in the mid '90s - seeing a side with varied talents develop into a cohesive unit - and guided them to the 1996 World Cup title. Apart from two stints in Sri Lanka, Whatmore has also coached Lancashire in the English County Championship, and Bangladesh, whom he groomed into a fighting one-day unit. He guided them to the Super Eights in the recent World Cup but decided not to renew his contract when it expired a month later.