{"id":55866,"date":"2021-10-19T06:18:11","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T06:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=55866"},"modified":"2022-09-12T14:21:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T08:51:14","slug":"rahul-dravid-appointed-as-team-india-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/rahul-dravid-appointed-as-team-india-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahul Dravid appointed as Team India head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Rahul Dravid will be appointed as Team India&#8217;s Head Coach after the conclusion of the upcoming T20 World Cup. Ravi Shastri would be stepping down from the position after the conclusion of the showpiece event. whose tenure at the helm ends after the&nbsp;<strong>2021 edition of the T20 World Cup in the UAE.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The BCCI, following due process invited applications for the posts of Indian men&#8217;s senior cricket team Head coach and batting, bowling, and fielding coaches. As per reports, BCCI president&nbsp;<strong>Sourav Ganguly<\/strong>&nbsp;and honorary secretary<strong>&nbsp;Jay Shah<\/strong>&nbsp;had a meeting with Dravid in Dubai and pleaded with him to take charge of the national team. As per reports, Dravid, also known as \u2018The Wall\u2019 of Indian cricket, has been roped in on a two-year contract and he will draw a salary of<strong>&nbsp;INR 10 crores.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Team India has also appointed lieutenant&nbsp;<strong>Paras Mhambrey<\/strong>&nbsp;as their bowling coach, replacing&nbsp;<strong>Bharat Arun.<\/strong>&nbsp;Even as&nbsp;<strong>Vikram Rathour<\/strong>&nbsp;has been persisted with as the batting coach, the decision on who should replace fielding coach<strong>&nbsp;R Sridhar<\/strong>&nbsp;hasn\u2019t been made just yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rahul Dravid will be appointed as Team India&#8217;s Head Coach after the conclusion of the upcoming T20 World Cup. Ravi Shastri would be stepping down from the position after the conclusion of the showpiece event. whose tenure at the helm ends after the&nbsp;2021 edition of the T20 World Cup in the UAE.&nbsp; The BCCI, following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":55867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1918],"tags":[4933,226],"class_list":["post-55866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-october-2021","tag-appointments-current-affairs","tag-cricket-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55866"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115429,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55866\/revisions\/115429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}