Tigers good show against India is Whatmore's chance to impress BCCI

Sydney, May 8 (UNI) If Habibul Bashar, Mohd Asraful and Tamim Iqbal are out to prove in the home series against India that their win against the visitors at the World Cup was no fluke, caoch Dav Whatmore has one more reason to eke on his boys -- to impress BCCI for a possible call up to coach India.

Should Whatmore, who threw himself into the ring for the India job after the 1983 world champion side's debacle in the Caribbean World Cup, succeed in inflicting more pain upon the Indians, he will be in an even stronger position to get the call from BCCI.

''I guess there's an opportunity to impress if we go well, and an opportunity to look bad if we don't,'' Whatmore was quoted as saying from Dhaka by Sydney Morning Herald.

''But it's difficult to say what the future holds. The only certainty is that I will be unemployed at the end of the series, but I can't afford to be unemployed for too long,'' said the Aussie who had guided Sri Lanka to 1996 World Cup title before taking Bangladesh to the Super Eights phase in the Caribbean World Cup last month.

Whatmore's name is doing rounds as one of potential candidates to occupy the vacant post of head coach for India and BCCI has directed Bangladesh tour manager Ravi Shastri to keep an eye on Whatmore's performance against his side.

A seven-member committee headed by BCCI chief Sharad Pawar will decide on India's permanent coach in the third week of this month.

UNI