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Committee of Administrators (CoA) has ruled out Rahul Dravid’s appointed as overseas batting coach of Team India while the issue former Indian pace bowler Zaheer Khan will be decided by the Cricket Advisory Committee. The scenario regarding Dravid and Zaheer has been cleared by CoA chairman Vinod Rai on Saturday.
Dravid is India U-19 and India ‘A’ coach, so he will hardly get any time to serve Indian senior team. However, he will always be ready to offer inputs to India if head coach Ravi Shastri wants him when senior team players practice at National Cricket Academy.
“The issues regarding Dravid’s contract are all sorted. He has a two-year full-time contract and said that he is not available for tours abroad with the senior team. He does not want to hang around,” Rai told reporters after his meeting with BCCI officials. However, Rai said that the CoA and the BCCI are struggling to resolve the Zaheer Khan issue as he currently holds a contract with Delhi Daredevils. To conflict of interest controversy, Zaheer has to give up IPL contract to play a role of bowling coach. Also read: BCCI to Name New Indian Cricket Team Manager Soon
“Earlier, there was no system in place. We are trying to set templates. Zaheer is very much in the scheme of coaching various Indian teams but we can only have him after we have a contract in place.
“We can’t just tell Zaheer okay we give you a three month or three-week contract and these are conditions. We have to also look into his IPL contract, media commitments,” Rai said.
“It will be fixed only after consulting the persons involved. We have spoken to both Rahul Dravid and Zaheer Khan. In process of fixing template both will figure in panel depending upon the type of coach required at any point of time,” he added.
The BCCI has formed a four-member committee on July 15 to take a call on the assistant coaches for the national team.
The committee comprises BCCI acting President C.K. Khanna, acting Secretary Amitabh Choudhary, CoA member Diana Edulji and board CEO Rahul Johri as the convener.
Dravid and Zaheer were chosen by the Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) comprising Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, and V.V.S. Laxman. Also read: ICC Women’s World Cup 2017: India’s Road to Finals
That has been a sticking point with new coach Ravi Shastri, who was reportedly interested in having his own set of assistant coaches. Shastri ultimately had his way with Bharat Arun being appointed bowling coach and Sanjay Bangar as an assistant coach.
Asserting that the BCCI had full faith in the CAC, Rai dismissed suggestions that the committee has been insulted in the process. Now, Rai said that BCCI has full faith on CAC.
(With inputs from agency)
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