News Update
Tezzbuzz|11-05-2024
Team India: Indian Premier League is the talk of the cricket world these days. After this, ICC T20 World Cup 2024 will be played in June. This mega event is very important for Indian cricket. Team India has not won any ICC event for the last 11 years. In such a situation, the blue jersey team will try to win this tournament to be played in USA and West Indies.
Apart from this, this will be the last assignment of Team India's current coach Rahul Dravid with the Indian cricket team. Meanwhile, speculations regarding the new head coach have also increased.
This veteran can become the new head coach
The tenure of the current head coach of Team India, Rahul Dravid, ended with the ODI World Cup played in October-November last year. But after this, Rahul's tenure has been extended till the ICC T20 World Cup 2024 to be played in June. Let us tell you that in November 2021, after Ravi Shastri, Rahul Dravid was appointed as the head coach.
But now BCCI is soon going to issue an advertisement to search for a new head coach. It is being claimed in some media reports that after Rahul Dravid, former veteran batsman of Team India VVS Laxman can be appointed as the new head coach of Team India.
VVS Laxman will become the new head coach
It is noteworthy that VVS Laxman is currently the director of the National Cricket Academy and on some occasions he has also played the role of part-time head coach for Team India. This is why if they apply for BCCI advertisement, they will be strong contenders to get the post. VVS has also served Indian cricket for a long time as a player. In such a situation, we will be able to understand the feelings of the players of Team India better than the coaches abroad.
Such has been the career of VVS Laxman
VVS Laxman was the best batsman of his era. The right-handed batsman represented India in 134 Test matches, in which he scored 8781 runs at an average of 45.5. During this period, VVS scored 2 double centuries, 17 centuries and 56 half-centuries.
Not only this, he has scored 2338 runs for Team India in 86 ODI matches at an average of 30.76. This also includes 6 century and 10 half-century innings. It is expected that VVS Laxman will use this experience in his tenure as head coach.