Former India all-rounder Manoj Prabhakar, who exited the Nepal coaching job after only four months, was asked to resign, it is learnt. A source in Nepal said of the 59-year-old Prabhakar: “The players were not happy with his methods of coaching. He was ignoring  senior players. He used to change the settled batting line-up often and was trying to make bowlers into batsmen. In short, we were not happy with this style of coaching and didn’t want the CAN [Cricket Association of Nepal] to suffer. It was a bad experience to have him as our coach.

“He had been appointed for a year in August this year. We asked him to resign and his contract was terminated prematurely.”