Joe Dawes is not a well-known figure in international cricket, but that's not the case in Australia where he earned a good name in domestic circuit. Dawes is just 42-years-old and would like to take the Indian bowlers to new heights, which is not going to be an easy task at all. He would be under lots of pressure being an Indian bowling coach.

He has always been a bowler who never gave up and was hard working during his playing days. Probably, it was this aspect that could have attracted the BCCI to hire him as a bowling coach. It would be great if he instils the never-give-up attitude into the Indian bowling line up. Hope he has some major plans up his sleeve when he joins the Indian team.

In all likelihood Simons was primarily sacked taking into account the performance of the Indian bowlers during the on-going Australian and the England tour before that. Along with it, the way some of the bowlers had been handled, raised negative points against Simons.
 
Will the new bowling coach be able to improve quality of bowling? There's one thing against him - he has never played a game at the international level, which definitely raises eye brows. So handling the current bunch of Indian bowlers will not be a cup of tea. He has a huge role to play in the current scenario, where there are many a bowlers in the team, but they get injured very frequently.

There's another thing thats puzzling - why does the BCCI always fall back on a foreigner when they want to rope in any kind of coach? Won't language play a vital role, as most of the Indian bowlers like Praveen Kumar might not be able to communicate in English. After all, ensuring that bowlers share problems freely and accurately is an important aspect of the coach-bowler equation. Or does the selection of a foreigner indicate lack of confidence by the BCCI on former Indian bowlers? Have the BCCI ever approached Madan Lal, Kapil Dev, Roger Binny, and Chetan Sharma, etc., for the job? If not, why?