BCCI stands by under-fire coach Duncan Fletcher

The BCCI stood by under-fire coach Duncan Fletcher following a meeting in Chennai on Friday. Coming out of the meeting, BCCI secretary Sanjay Patel said: "It was a routine meeting and we support Fletcher whole-heartedly."
The meeting was originally supposed to take place in Mumbai but had to be shifted to Chennai because president N Srinivasan underwent a cataract operation recently.
Patel denied giving any ultimatum to Fletcher, whose contract comes up for renewal in April. In fact, in the meeting Fletcher had requested BCCI to add a trainer to the support-staff.
While the Indian team left for Bangladesh for the T20 World Cup on Friday, Fletcher, along with the other coaches Joe Dawes and Trevor Penny will join them in Dhaka on Saturday.
Fletcher has faced a lot of criticism of late for India's poor performance with Sunil Gavaskar saying that India needs a younger coach who has more fresh ideas to offer.