AUDIO: I am here for the challenge and I will use the players available – ZC interim coach Lalchand Rajput

Zimbabwe Cricket interim coach Lalchand Rajput faced the media in Harare on Monday where he spoke of not being one to shy away from a challenge given his new assignment.

With the backdrop being the turmoil engulfing the national men’s side with some players making themselves unavailable for selection for the T20I tri-series involving Australia and Pakistan:

To be very honest I just look at the players who are available and the best 15 or 17 which we have picked. So my job is to get the 17 who are available and prepare them for the tri-series. I am not interested who is available or not available. My job is for the people who are available, I want to prepare them for the tri-series.

And as for this challenge Rajput said:

As a coach, you like challenges. Which I have done with Aghanistan as well and with the Indian team, when I was appointed first the T20 coach. We won the T20 World Cup in 2007. That was a challenge because all the youngsters were there. With Afghanistan, I was with them for 18 months, we attained test status.