India New T20 Coach – Rahul Dravid on his WAY-OUT? The info coming out of the BCCI Headquarters in Mumbai is that the Indian board is ‘seriously mulling’ to appoint separate coach for India’s T20 Set-UP. The new coaching set-up for the Indian T20 Team can be announced as soon as in January according to a source in BOARD. This means that, India will play T20 Series vs SriLanka in January under NEW-CAPTAIN & NEW COACH: Follow Indian Cricket LIVE Updates & IND vs BAN LIVE Updates with InsideSport.IN
InsideSport had already reported that Hardik Pandya will be officially appointed as India’s NEW T20 Captain before series vs SriLanka. Now a top BCCI official has confirmed to InsideSport, that board is also interested in appointing NEW-COACH for Indian T20 Team. In all likelihood, new coach will work in tandem with Rahul Dravid.
Dravid will primarily focus on ODI & Test Team, while a separate coaching set-up for T20 is being mulled on.
“We are seriously mulling on it. More than it being Rahul Dravid or anyone’s ability, it is a question of managing tight schedules & having specialize skills on board. T20 now is like a separate sport, tough calendar & regular events. We also need to imbibe change. Yes, I can confirm – India soon will have new T20 Coaching SET-UP”, confirmed top official in BCCI.
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Rahul Dravid on his WAY-OUT? When asked, who can be appointed as India’s new T20 Coach? BCCI official said, ‘no one has been zeroed on so far’. InsideSport further asked the official on by when the new appointmment can come in?
“We are not sure by when, but we are certain about India needs fresh approach to T20 SET-UP. We will have announcement of NEW-CAPTAIN before January. And new coach can follow, but as I said nothing is final”, said the official without revealing any further details.
Both Ravi Shastri & Harbhajan Singh had earlier suggested that India should have separate coach & captain for T20 SET-UP.
“Someone who has played the game more recently is better suited for the coaching job in T20s. I am not saying you remove Rahul from T20. Ashish and Rahul can work together to build this team for the 2024 World Cup,” Harbhajan recently told PTI.
“I think for T20 cricket, there’s no harm in having a new captain, new coach because the volume of cricket is such that for one person to play or manage all three formats of the game is never going to be easy,” Shastri was quoted during recent virtual news conference.
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The big change will be that BIG GUNS i.e, current captain Rohit Sharma & Virat Kohli will not be part of India’s T20 plans anymore.
InsideSport had already reported that Hardik Pandya will be handed captaincy for the T20 TEAM. Now InsideSport has learnt that BCCI in informal chat has informed Rohit, Virat, Mohammed Shami, R.Ashwin, Dinesh Karthik that they will not be included in India’s T20 Team anymore.
India will play 3 Match T20 Series vs SriLanka in January. Neither of these players will be included in Indian squad for the SERIES. India’s VICE-CAPTAIN KL Rahul is set to miss the series as he is reportedly getting married.
“The new selection committee gets appointed in December. They are the ones who will take all formal decisions about the Indian squad. But it is certain that we need to move on from few names. Rohit, Virat have already been spoken to. They are on same page with the BCCI“, informed a top BCCI official to InsideSport.
Change in Captain to be announced soon –
- T20 Cricket: Hardik Pandya to be officially announced as India captain before SriLanka Series
- ODI Cricket: Rohit Sharma to keep ODI Captaincy till World CUP 2023
- Test Captaincy: Rohit Sharma will stay as India’s captain at least till the current WTC cycle.
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