Gautam Gambhir interviews for India head coach place
Gautam Gambhir, the frontrunner to exchange Rahul Dravid as India males’s head coach, has formally utilized for the place and attended an interview on Tuesday, ESPNcricinfo has realized. Gambhir interacted with the Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC), which is the panel entrusted by the BCCI to shortlist candidates.
The BCCI, which had set Could 27 because the deadline for purposes for the publish, had held casual discussions with Gambhir throughout IPL 2024, when he helped lead Kolkata Knight Riders to their third title after returning to the franchise as mentor in November 2023.
The KKR job was Gambhir’s second stint in a training function; he had been a mentor at Lucknow Tremendous Giants in the course of the 2022 and 2023 IPL seasons, serving to the staff qualify for the playoffs each instances.
Gambhir had sought time to take a ultimate name in the course of the IPL, however talking at an occasion in Abu Dhabi on June 1, he expressed his need to educate India. “Look, I’d love to educate the Indian staff,” Gambhir mentioned. “There isn’t a larger honour. There isn’t a larger honour than teaching your nationwide staff. You’re representing 140 crore Indians. And extra throughout the globe as effectively. And if you signify India, how can it get larger than that?”
He had been answering a query on whether or not he noticed himself serving to India win a World Cup.
“How can I assist India win the World Cup – I believe it isn’t me that may assist India win the World Cup, it’s 140 crore Indians that may assist India win the World Cup,” Gambhir mentioned. “If everybody begins praying for us, and we begin taking part in and representing them, India will win the World Cup. Crucial factor is to be fearless and sure, I’d love to educate India.”
Gambhir turned the frontrunner for the job as soon as his former India team-mate VVS Laxman informed the BCCI final yr that he was not within the head coach job. Laxman is at present the director of cricket on the Nationwide Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bengaluru.
Dravid had taken over from Ravi Shastri after the T20 World Cup in November 2021, initially signing on for 2 years till the 2023 ODI World Cup. He then accepted the BCCI’s request to increase his tenure till the continuing T20 World Cup.
The BCCI had mentioned the brand new head coach could be appointed for for three-and-a-half years, from July 2024 to December 2027, and would helm the staff in all three codecs.
