Laxman, who’s the top of the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bengaluru, has beforehand too stepped in as head coach on males’s excursions when Rahul Dravid has been rested — as was the case just lately for the T20I collection in Ireland. The India males’s unit on the Asian Games shall be a second-string squad, led by Ruturaj Gaikwad, with the primary squad making ready to play the World Cup that begins on October 5.