Dravid is unlikely to apply for the position after the marquee event.

Mumbai: With the Board of Control of Cricket in India (BCCI) inviting applications for the post of the head coach of the Indian team, there were speculations over will Rahul Dravid apply or not. As per a report in The Times of India, Dravid is unlikely to apply for the position after the marquee event. Recently, BCCI Secretary Jay Shah did not rule out the possibility of a foreign coach when he invited the applications.

“We cannot determine whether the new coach will be Indian or foreign. It will be up to the cricket advisory committee (CAC),” Shah told reporters in Mumbai.

“You can check the constitution. I am just a convener (of selection meeting). That decision lies with Ajit Agarkar, even when these two players (Ishan and Iyer) who did not play domestic (cricket), the decision to drop them (from the central contracts list) was only his. My role is just to implement. And we have got new players (in place), like Sanju (Samson). Nobody is indispensable,” he said.

Dravid has officially held the position of India’s Head coach from November 2021.