Ravi Shastri revealed his ‘core team’ till the 2019 World Cup.
India head coach Ravi Shastri announced his “core coaching team” for the next two years. On expected lines, Bharat Arun was appointed as bowling coach while R Sridhar was appointed fielding coach. Former batting coach Sanjay Bangar will be the assistant coach till the 2019 World Cup.
While interacting with the media, Shastri said that he was very clear who is core team will be and this is what he wanted. The confusion regarding Zaheer Khan and Rahul Dravid roles continues as there was no clarity over their role with the team. The former India cricketers were earlier appointed as batting and bowling mentors respectively.
On their roles, Shastri said, “I have spoken to both Zaheer and Dravid, and they are two fantastic cricketers of India and their inputs will be invaluable.”
The two former cricketers are not on board yet and there remains no clarity about their future roles with the Indian cricket team.
“They will be on board, once they have spoken to the authorities concerned.It depends on how many days they would be willing to give, but their inputs will be invaluable,” said Shastri.
Shastri thanked Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) for the job and said it was an honour to be head coach of the Indian cricket team. The committee including BCCI’s acting president CK Khanna, acting secretary Amitabh Choudhary and CoA member Diana Edulji finalised the selection process after recommending it to CoA chairman Vinod Rai.
India will leave on Wednesday for Sri Lanka tour, which includes a new staff. India will play three Tests, five one-day matches and a T20, during their two month long tour.
