“Yes, Rahul has applied formally today as it is the last day of the deadline. His team, bowling coach Paras (Mambre) and fielding coach Abhay (Sharma) have already applied for the NCA. His application was just a formality,” a senior BCCI official told PTI on Tuesday.
Dravid was earlier not interested in applying for the job citing his family commitments and was happy to work at the National Cricket Academy but a meeting with his former teammate and BCCI secretary changed his mind.
“Jay and Sourav spoke to him and it was about Dravid being confident because it takes a lot of time because you need to keep going. But things went well and Dravid has always kept the interest of Indian cricket at the top, so that made things easy as the team would do well to have someone like him guide the boys.” years.
It is also learned that Rahul Dravid is the first and only choice of BCCI President Sourav Ganguly and Secretary Jay Shah. Now, with not many big names applying for the post of head coach of Indian cricket, the task has become easier for the Cricket Advisory Committee as there is no big name in the field who can match the stature of this great batsman.
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Current coach Ravi Shastri’s contract ends with the T20 World Cup and under Dravid, a new era in Indian cricket will begin with the home series against New Zealand where he will take over with a new T20 captain, who will in all likelihood I will be Rohit Sharma. .
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