India, July 15 -- India's assistant coach Ryan ten Doeschate has expressed his intentions to be relieved off his duties even though the BCCI is keen on keeping him instead of T Dilip, whose performance has been below par over the past one year.

While ten Doeschate hasn't been released yet, the former Netherlands skipper wants to return to the IPL and has even had fruitful discussions with one franchise. It is understood that when Ten Doeschate came on board following strong recommendation from head coach Gautam Gambhir (he had worked with him at KKR), he was promised the job of a specialist fielding coach but two years down the line, the issue hasn't been sorted.

"You have (Sitanshu) Kotak as the batting coach and there's Gauti (Gambhir...