Team India Gets New Head Coach For Ireland T20Is In Absence Of Rahul Dravid, VVS Laxman: Report | Cricket News

The Indian cricket group is ready to embark upon a brand new journey on the tour of Ireland within the T20I sequence. While head coach Rahul Dravid has been given a relaxation for the project, even VVS Laxman, who often steps into Dravid’s sneakers in such circumstances, is not going to be touring with the boys. In the absence of the 2 India stalwarts, the younger Indian group will see former home stalwart Sitanshu Kotak taking on the position of the pinnacle coach. Kotak is presently the pinnacle coach of the India A group on the NCA.

As per a number of reviews, Laxman was purported to be the pinnacle coach of the Indian group on the tour of Ireland however his subsequent activity is to supervise a high-performance coaching camp close to Bengaluru. The camp will final for 3 weeks, making him unavailable for the Ireland T20Is that start on August 18.

It has additionally been reported that Kotak will probably be accompanied by Sairaj Bahutule because the group’s bowling coach.

“Kotak and Sairaj Bahutule (bowling coach) will travel with Jasprit Bumrah & Co for the three-match T20I series (from August 18-23), as Laxman will conduct the high-performance camp from August 16 to September 5, for which youngsters like Abhishek Sharma, Dhruv Jurel, Riyan Parag, Prabhsimran Singh, Sai Sudarshan, Akash Singh, Rajvardhan Hangargekar and Divyansh Saxena have been called up by the BCCI,” Times of India quoted a supply as saying.

The sequence may solely characteristic T20Is, but it surely stays fairly necessary for the Indian group administration, protecting in thoughts the return of Jasprit Bumrah, and can characteristic thrilling younger weapons like Ruturaj Gaikwad, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rinku Singh, Jitesh Sharma, and so forth.

Sitanshu has the expertise of teaching the Inda A group for 2 years and the Ireland alternative permits him to work with among the next-gen Indian gamers who might go on to be the longer term greats of the sport.