Former chief of the Committee of Administrators Vinod Rai has revealed that they’d approached Rahul Dravid to supply him the head coach’s place for Team India however the former captain turned it down.
Vinod Rai mentioned Rahul Dravid refused to just accept the provide as he wished to proceed coaching the India U-19 crew and in addition have the ability to give enough time to his younger household.
“Rahul was very upfront with us. He said ‘look I have two boys growing up at home and I have been travelling with the Indian team all over the world and I am not able to give time and attention to them, I think I must stay at home also. And give time to my family’.
“I believe that was a very truthful request and although he would have been uppermost in thoughts. So, he was very much in the zone of consideration,” Rai told Sportskeeda.
“Look, in phrases of potential for coaching, Dravid, Shastri and Kumble are the greatest in the enterprise.
“We definitely spoke to Rahul. He was engaged with the Under-19 team and he was involved with them. He had developed a road map on how to develop a team.
“He was bringing out implausible outcomes. He wished to proceed as a result of he felt that there have been some unfinished activity with that crew and he wished to do it,” Rai added.
Ravi Shastri bagged the Team India coaching job in 2017 after Anil Kumble resigned from the post, citing untenable differences with captain Virat Kohli. Shastri’s tenure was then extended in 2019 till the 2021 T20 World Cup.
Dravid, who was working with the India A and U-19 teams as coach, was later appointed head of the National Cricket Academy in Bengaluru in July last year.
“He was very form and very gracious in accepting that and committing himself to the NCA,” Rai said.
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