A senior Baroda Cricket Association official on Monday said that it will be now "difficult to engage" sexagenarian Australian coach Dav Whatmore with the BCCI Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) barring 60-plus individuals from taking part in the training camp.

"It will be difficult for us now to engage him [Whatmore]," an official said, a day after BCCI sent the SOPs to state associations for resumption of domestic cricket amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Whatmore, 66, was appointed by Baroda as the coach of its Ranji Trophy team and also Director of Cricket in April this year.