BCCI approaches Gautam Gambhir to turn into India’s head coach
Former India batter Gautam Gambhir is on prime of the BCCI’s wishlist to take up the place of India males’s head coach after Rahul Dravid’s time period ends on the conclusion of the 2024 T20 World Cup in June.
ESPNcricinfo has discovered Gambhir, who’s at the moment the mentor of Kolkata Knight Riders within the IPL, has been contacted by the BCCI to gauge his curiosity within the job, and additional discussions are anticipated after KKR full their IPL 2024 marketing campaign. Nevertheless, the deadline for making use of for the India head coach job is Might 27, a day after the IPL remaining.
Dravid, it’s learnt, has communicated to the BCCI his choice to not search one other tenure.
Whereas Gambhir, 42, has no expertise of teaching at worldwide or home degree, he has been in control of the teaching employees at two IPL franchises. He was the mentor at Lucknow Tremendous Giants in IPL 2022 and 2023 – they certified for the playoffs in each seasons – earlier than becoming a member of KKR for the 2024 season, the place they’ll end the league stage on prime of the factors desk. Gambhir’s transfer to KKR for IPL 2024 was surprising however it’s discovered he was persuaded to turn into the crew’s mentor by the franchise’s principal proprietor Shah Rukh Khan.Gambhir was a part of India’s T20 World Cup triumph in 2007 and the ODI World Cup victory in 2011. He captained KKR for seven IPL seasons from 2011 to 2017, and so they certified for the playoffs 5 occasions and received two titles in 2012 and 2014 below his management. Additionally they reached the ultimate of the defunct Champions League T20 in 2014.Final week, the BCCI posted an commercial searching for purposes for the place of India males’s head coach. The job, the BCCI stated, can be for all three codecs for a length of three and a half years ranging from July 2024 till December 2027.
Dravid had begun his two-year time period as India’s head coach after the 2021 T20 World Cup. His stint was supposed to finish after the 2023 ODI World Cup in November final 12 months, however he agreed to an extension till the tip of the 2024 T20 World Cup, which will likely be performed in West Indies and the USA in June.
