Shastri, Zaheer, Dravid in India's new coaching team

[CricPokChic]

Ravi Shastri, the former India allrounder and team director, has been appointed head coach of the national side until the 2019 World Cup. Zaheer Khan has been named bowling coach for the same tenure, while Rahul Dravid will be the India's batting consultant on overseas tours.

 

Their first assignment is the Test series in Sri Lanka, which begins on July 26.

 

The confirmation came late on Tuesday night after the CoA impressed upon the BCCI's Cricket Advisory Committee, comprising Sourav Ganguly, Sachin Tendullkar and VVS Laxman, the urgency of the need to end the uncertainty over the next India coach.

 

The vacancy arose because Anil Kumble resigned after the Champions Trophy in June, stating that his partnership with India captain Virat Kohli had become "untenable". India went to the West Indies to play a limited-overs series without a head coach.

 

Shastri was one of five candidates the CAC interviewed for the role, along with Virender Sehwag, Tom Moody, Richard Pybus and Lalchand Rajput. He had not applied when the BCCI invited applications for the first time, but did so after Kumble was not in the fray anymore.

 

 

 

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Shastri had applied for the role in 2016 as well, and was disappointed to lose out to Kumble, because India had done well during his tenure as director.

 

He had been appointed team director in August 2014 and under him, India made it to semi-finals of successive global events - the 2015 World Cup and the 2016 World T20 - and also climbed to No. 1 on the Test rankings for a period of eight weeks until February 2016. During that time, India also won their first limited-overs bilateral series in Australia, whitewashing the hosts 3-0 in a T20I series. While he worked alongside Duncan Fletcher in the early part of his tenure, Shastri had sole responsibility of the team after the 2015 World Cup.

 

Zaheer, a former India fast bowler, has no formal coaching experience but he has been part of the Delhi Daredevils thinktank in recent IPL seasons. He was offered the role of the bowling consultant last year by the BCCI, but both parties could not come to an agreement over remuneration.

 

Dravid recently gave up his position as the Daredevils mentor, after accepting a two-year contractto coach the India A and Under-19 teams.

[Kool_SRG]

Edo guddi lo mella.... But not happy seeing ravi.

[punyavathi]

Totally unhappy with retarded Kohli. Edo pedda bradman laga feel avutunadu

[tennisluvr]

Kohli proved today who's the alpha male in the dressing room, including all the BCCI officials. 

[ronitreddy]

Captain edi chebithe adi vinalsinde man..Mana system alane edchindi mari

[CricPokChic]

shastri gadu inka kohli cheppinattu adatadu

[ronitreddy]

3 minutes ago, CricPokChic said:

shastri gadu inka kohli cheppinattu adatadu

ante dance veyyamante dance vesthada dressing room lo?

[argadorn]

3 minutes ago, CricPokChic said:

shastri gadu inka kohli cheppinattu adatadu

adey kadh abottom line ...tehy are professional players kadha so vallaki bhajana kavali ....

[CricPokChic]

8 minutes ago, argadorn said:

adey kadh abottom line ...tehy are professional players kadha so vallaki bhajana kavali ....

welcoming anushka sharma to the dressing room...

[gilly]

sad with Ravi 

Happy with Zaheer and Dravid 

[Kontekurradu]

kohli gadu worst ga adi, ad captency po 10gukovali 

1 ear tarvatha, ee PP Kohli gaadu, Dravid and Zaher tho probem ante, valani kuda teesi 10guthara 

Ravi sastri si the worst to be a coach, Kohli gadi meda vunna abhimanam mottom poyindi 

[saradagakasepu]

expected sastri garu 

[ronitreddy]

28 minutes ago, Kontekurradu said:

kohli gadu worst ga adi, ad captency po 10gukovali 

1 ear tarvatha, ee PP Kohli gaadu, Dravid and Zaher tho probem ante, valani kuda teesi 10guthara 

Ravi sastri si the worst to be a coach, Kohli gadi meda vunna abhimanam mottom poyindi 

This will never happen no

[tennisluvr]

10 minutes ago, ronitreddy said:

This will never happen no

Kohli if anything will start playing better, and will become a great captain. 

Hate him as much as people want to, he's the best ever Indian batsman in the last 25 years. 

[Manmada9]

55 minutes ago, gilly said:

sad with Ravi 

Happy with Zaheer and Dravid 

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