{"id":7881,"date":"2023-11-30T20:20:49","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T14:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=377919"},"modified":"2023-11-30T20:20:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T14:50:49","slug":"gautam-gambhir-applauds-bccis-move-to-extend-rahul-dravids-coaching-stint-ahead-of-t20-world-cup-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/gautam-gambhir-applauds-bccis-move-to-extend-rahul-dravids-coaching-stint-ahead-of-t20-world-cup-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Gautam Gambhir Applauds BCCI\u2019s Move to Extend Rahul Dravid\u2019s Coaching Stint Ahead of T20 World Cup 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Indian cricketer Gautam Gambhir has thrown his support behind the Board of Control for Cricket in India\u2019s (BCCI) recent decision to extend the contract of India\u2019s head coach, Rahul Dravid. Gambhir, who shared the dressing room with the ex-Indian captain, deems BCCI\u2019s move as a wise one, especially with the T20 World Cup 2024 on the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>Rahul Dravid took charge of the Indian team following Ravi Shastri\u2019s tenure after the 2021 T20 World Cup. While initial reports suggested Dravid\u2019s reluctance to extend his contract post the recently concluded ODI World Cup, BCCI has successfully convinced him to continue. However, the specifics of the contract duration remain undisclosed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a good thing because the T20 World Cup is around the corner, and you don\u2019t want to change the entire support staff, and it is good that Rahul has accepted it,\u201d expressed Gambhir in a statement to ANI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Indian cricketer Gautam Gambhir has thrown his support behind the Board of Control for Cricket in India\u2019s (BCCI) recent\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":30771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1033],"class_list":["post-7881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-rahul-dravid"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7881","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\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}