New Delhi, March 14 -- Former international boxer Venkatesan Devarajan, first Indian boxer to win a World Cup medal on foreign soil, has shown interest in taking up the coaching of the Indian boxing team. The team's High Performance director Bernard Dunne resigned from his post after the disastrous show of the team in the Olympic qualifiers in Italy recently.

India's boxers failed to win a single Paris Olympics quota from the world qualifiers and so far, only four Indian women boxers have won Paris quota places from the Asian Games. With just two months to go for the last Olympic qualifiers in Thailand from May 23, India boxing is staring at a crisis.

While Dunne's resignation has been accepted, foreign coach Dmitry Dmitruk, who was bro...