Will VVS Laxman become the new head coach for India?\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\nAs per reports presented by a close source of the BCCI, “Laxman has expressed his keenness for the job. During the World Cup, Laxman travelled to Ahmedabad to meet the BCCI’s top bosses in this regard. He’s likely to sign a long-time contract as the Team India coach, and will certainly travel with the team in that capacity for the upcoming tour of South Africa, which will be his first as full-time India head coach.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n“Dravid has communicated to the BCCI that he isn’t keen to continue as a full-time coach. For close to 20 years, he has travelled with the Indian team as a player, and for the past couple of years, he again went through the same grind, which he doesn’t want to undergo.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cHe’s fine with a role at the NCA as the head there (a role he previously served in), which will allow him to stay back in his hometown Bengaluru. Like earlier, he’s fine with coaching the team sporadically, but not again as a full-time coach,” the reports said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rahul Dravid\u2019s contract as the all-format head coach for the Indian cricket team ended after World Cup 2023. India remained the only team to be unbeaten in the tournament with 10 wins before losing the final match and the final game to Australia.\u00a0 Multiple reports have recently claimed that Dravid isn\u2019t looking forward to getting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9802,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[519,528],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportzoclock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9801"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportzoclock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportzoclock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportzoclock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportzoclock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9801"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportzoclock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9805,"href":"https:\/\/sportzoclock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9801\/revisions\/9805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportzoclock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportzoclock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportzoclock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportzoclock.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}