BCCI re-appoints Ravi Shastri as team India's head coach
The BCCI has announced their choice of head coach for the Men's Indian Cricket Team and after a series of speculations, myriads of applications for the post and a whole day of interview of the best candidates, the board has decided that the current holder of the job Ravi Shastri will continue.
Ravi Shastri, despite having the least coaching experience among all leading candidates that applied for head coach of the Indian team, was still the favourite to land the job which he has held since 2017.
Preceding that, he was the manager for just a one-off series of the Indian side following the team's shocking exit from the group stage of the 2007 World Cup. The former cricketer was then appointed as the Team director in 2014 till early 2016. Until he became the head coach of India, that was his only experience. Following the then coach Kumble’s conflicts with current skipper Virat Kohli in 2017, Shastri was appointed coach.
Under Shastri's coaching tenure, Virat Kohli-led India recorded its maiden Test series victory in Australia. India also registered their first-ever ODI bilateral series in South Africa, while losing Test series during the same tour. Visitors India then lost 3-1 to England in 2018, while also getting defeated by New Zealand in the World Cup semi-final in England and Wales in 2019.
The finale for India in the World Cup meant an end to his contract as a coach but he along with the support staff were offered a 45-day extension for the tour of America and the Caribbean, where India won both the T20I and ODI series.
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