India head coach Rahul Dravid's tenure will end after the ongoing T20 World Cup 2024 and the Board of Control for Cricket in India have started looking for his successor of the team. The board recently interviewed him. Gambhir is currently the favourite to become the head coach of the senior men’s team, pipping former women’s team head coach WV Raman. The announcement is a mere formality and might happen in the next few days.
Gambhir is expected to start his tenure as coach from the Sri Lanka tour and India will travel to Zimbabwe before the series against Island Nation. VVS Laxman and his support staff at the National Cricket Academy likely to accompany the Indian cricket team in the Zimbabwe series.
“There is a possibility that Laxman along with some of the NCA coaches will travel with the new look squad to Zimbabwe. Laxman and the NCA team has always filled up whenever Rahul Dravid and the first team coaches have been taking periodic breaks during their stint,” a BCCI source told PTI on conditions of anonymity.
Team India will travel to Zimbabwe with a young squad but will six to seven members of the T20 World Cup contingent.
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Three rookies, who are all but certain to get a look-in are Riyan Parag, Abhishek Sharma and all-rounder Nitish Reddy while one among Yash Dayal or Harshit Rana could also get their maiden call-up.
The skipper of the squad will either be Hardik Pandya, if he doesn’t ask for rest, or Suryakumar Yadav, who led the T20 team against Australia at home and in an away series in South Africa.
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