Dravid appointed as batting consultant for England tour

[StriKe]

Team management asked for him ahead of England tour

Former India captain Rahul Dravid has been appointed as a consultant to the team in the run-up to their five-Test series in England. Dravid will play a mentoring role before the series begins on July 9. He is expected to join the team latest by Monday. The move was initiated by the team management, according to BCCI secretary Sanjay Patel. "It was the coach (Duncan Fletcher) who approached us on behalf of the team and said it would be good to have Rahul with his vast experience spend some time with the boys ahead of the series," Patel told ESPNcricinfo. "We immediately requested Rahul and he readily agreed." This will be the first time Dravid, who has been mentoring IPL franchise Rajasthan Royals after retiring from international cricket in 2012, will be associated in such a capacity with the national team. In March this year, former India captain Sunil Gavaskar had said that Dravid should take over as India coach, but the latter had declined the suggestion citing lack of time. "Rahul Dravid is one man who is enormously respected and was a successful captain, having won series in West Indies and England," Gavaskar had said. "When he speaks, the Indian players, some of whom are superstars, listen to him as they know how much preparation went into his game." "I am happy that he (Gavaskar) said I am capable of doing the job," Dravid had said. "But the job requires a lot of time, almost 11 months a year. I have just retired and at the moment because of time constraints, I have to decline."

http://www.espncricinfo.com/england-v-india-2014/content/current/story/756323.html

[G_B_]

excellent move..

[FischerTal]

Laaloo :phehehe:

[Sachin=GOD]

:nice:

[StriKe]

Good choice for batting but for bowling ? Nehra? Agarkar ? :hmmm: :haha:

[Temujin Khaghan]

bowling consultant bowling consultant we ****ing needed a bowling consultant when the IPL got over and all these ****ing morons are still recuperating from the hangover by fattening up and posting rotten tweets about energy drinks and critics being girlfriends on twitter.

[renjith]

excellent... can someone bring in zak as well for mentoring bowlers?

[skindia]

He should play at no 3,has fitness

[Temujin Khaghan]

I want to see Rahul Dravid's face when god Rohit Sharma is batting. :cantstop:

[adi B]

If needed he can be brought back from retirement and replace someone like Mooli

[Insidious]

Why srinath choose to be a match refree, instead he could have been our bowling coach. Only a proper fast bowler can understand the mentality of a fast bowler. Imagine shami, umesh, aaron under srinath...Even zaheer can do wonders as a coach. But instead we have that fatso dawes as our bowling coach :facepalm:

[renjith]

his involvement can be critical for the slight technical adjustments our batsmen will require to counter swing in eng. dravid already said the importance for intensity in practice sessions and warm up matches. considering the lack-lusture way we bowled yesterday, his presense will also help to improve the intensity factor.

[Mystique_Myth]

what about bowling consultant??.. sure that is what we need most right now..

[rkt.india]

Bowling consultant :protest:

[Insidious]

The only good thing this fletcher has done as Indian coach is to recommend dravid as batting consultant...Now if he can gracefully resign and give his post permanently to Dravid

[Insidious]

Bowling consultant :protest:

Great Ishant Sharma is there na...He will guide our bowlers :proud:

[rkt.india]

The only good thing this fletcher has done as Indian coach is to recommend dravid as batting consultant...Now if he can gracefully resign and give his post permanently to Dravid

Dravid will be a good coach. He is tactically very good.

[saneindian]

I think he will be doing commentary on the tour, so must be a consultant only till the time the first test starts. Good move anyways

[StriKe]

The only good thing this fletcher has done as Indian coach is to recommend dravid as batting consultant...Now if he can gracefully resign and give his post permanently to Dravid

In March this year, former India captain Sunil Gavaskar had said that Dravid should take over as India coach, but the latter had declined the suggestion citing lack of time. "I am happy that he (Gavaskar) said I am capable of doing the job," Dravid had said. "But the job requires a lot of time, almost 11 months a year. I have just retired and at the moment because of time constraints, I have to decline."

[kubrickian]

At last a good decision by BCCI and will be good for the future of our test team. This is like music to my ears.