Rahul Dravid UNLIKELY to Reapply For Team India Head Coach Job – REPORT

Mumbai: With the Board of Control of Cricket in India (BCCI) inviting applications for the post of the head coach of the Indian team, there were speculations over will Rahul Dravid apply or not. As per a report in The Times of India, Dravid is unlikely to apply for the position after the marquee event. Recently, BCCI Secretary Jay Shah did not rule out the possibility of a foreign coach when he invited the applications.

“We cannot determine whether the new coach will be Indian or foreign. It will be up to the cricket advisory committee (CAC),” Shah told reporters in Mumbai.

“You can check the constitution. I am just a convener (of selection meeting). That decision lies with Ajit Agarkar, even when these two players (Ishan and Iyer) who did not play domestic (cricket), the decision to drop them (from the central contracts list) was only his. My role is just to implement. And we have got new players (in place), like Sanju (Samson). Nobody is indispensable,” he said.

Dravid has officially held the position of India’s Head coach from November 2021.

Squad
Rohit Sharma (Captain), Hardik Pandya (Vice Captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant (WK), Sanju Samson (WK), Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohd. Siraj.

Reserves
Shubman Gill, Rinku Singh, Khaleel Ahmed and Avesh Khan

India will begin their World Cup campaign against Ireland on June 5 at the Nassau County International Cricket Stadium, New York, followed by the marquee clash against Pakistan on June 09 at the same venue. India will then play USA and Canada on June 12 and 15 respectively.