{"id":2874,"date":"2021-11-03T21:53:41","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T16:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=164182"},"modified":"2021-11-03T23:23:02","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T17:53:02","slug":"bcci-appoints-rahul-dravid-as-the-new-indian-cricket-team-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/bcci-appoints-rahul-dravid-as-the-new-indian-cricket-team-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"BCCI appoints Rahul Dravid as Indian Cricket Team\u2019s head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, the saga of the appointment of a \u00a0new Indian coach has come to an end. The former Indian captain Rahul Dravid is officially announced as the successor to current coach Ravi Shastri. According to the official website of BCCI, Dravid was appointed as the new coach by the unanimous decision of The Cricket Advisory Committee that comprised Sulakshana Naik and RP Singh.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 NEWS \ud83d\udea8: Mr Rahul Dravid appointed as Head Coach \u2013 Team India (Senior Men)<\/p>\n<p>More Details \ud83d\udd3d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BCCI (@BCCI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BCCI\/status\/1455917023767109638?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The drama started after the current coach of the Indian team, Ravi Shastri declared that he will be stepping down from his role after the T20 World Cup got over. This caused some serious stirs, as BCCI invited applications from all around for the role. This was followed by several speculations and denials of Dravid being the next in charge until BCCI made it official on the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> of November.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside this announcement, BCCI also showed gratitude towards Ravi Shastri and his coaching staff which consisted of Bharat Arun the bowling coach, R. Shridhar the fielding coach, and Vikram Rathour the batting coach, for their invaluable contribution to the team\u2019s success. Under their tenure, India became the first team to win a series in Australia in the 2018-19 series followed by another win in 2020-21. They also became the first team to clinch a whitewash victory in a 5 match T20I series. India achieved this feat against New Zealand. India also won all their 7 home test series.<\/p>\n<p>Talking about his new role, Rahul Dravid too shared a statement in which he said, \u201cIt is an absolute honor to be appointed as the new Head Coach of the Indian Cricket team and I am really looking forward to this role\u2026 there are some marquee multi-team events in the next two years, and I look forward to working with staff and players to achieve our potential.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the official website of BCCI, Dravid was appointed as the new coach by the unanimous decision of The Cricket Advisory Committee that comprised Sulakshana Naik and RP Singh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":215,"featured_media":25957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2712,1033,132,1416,1591],"class_list":["post-2874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-bharat-arun","tag-rahul-dravid","tag-ravi-shastri","tag-rp-singh","tag-vikram-rathour"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/215"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}