India have hired Australian Joe Dawes as their new bowling coach in an effort to revive the cricket team’s fortunes after successive whitewashes in away Test series.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI) joint-secretary Anurag Thakur said the decision had been taken to replace Eric Simons of South Africa at a meeting in Chennai on Monday.

Dawes will take over after India’s ongoing tour of Australia, in which India have already played four Tests and two Twenty20 games, and are now playing a limited-overs tri series which also features Sri Lanka.

Dawes has been working as a bowling coach for Queensland and, most recently, South Australia since retiring from first class cricket in 2005.

The burly right-arm quick played 76 first class matches including 64 for Queensland where he took 238 wickets at 24.94, winning the Sheffield Shield in 2001 and 2002.

In other decisions taken during the meeting, the BCCI decided not to conduct an inquiry into the 4-0 Test losses in England and Australia and also rejected key recommendations of the Woolf report on restructuring of the International Cricket Council.