MUMBAI: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Monday appointed former Indian skipper Rahul Dravid as head of Cricket at the National Cricket Academy (NCA), Bengaluru.
The batting great will oversee all cricket related activities at NCA and will be involved in mentoring, coaching, training and motivating players, coaches and support staff at the NCA.
Dravid will also work closely with the national men’s and women’s head coaches and cricket coaches for India developmental teams – including India A, India Under 19, India Under 23 teams, in the identification of key training and development objectives.
He will also be responsible for monitoring progress against these objectives for the developmental teams and provide necessary inputs on the same to the senior men’s and women’s head coaches.
Dravid was scheduled to take over as NCA head from July 1. However, his long and continuing association with India Cements, which owns, among other cricket clubs, IPL franchise Chennai Super Kings, had been red flagged for potential conflict of interest.
The Committee of Administrators (CoA) had asked Dravid to relinquish his post as vice-president of India Cements or take leave of absence from the company for the period of his tenure at the NCA,which he has done.
Now that Dravid has taken charge, he, along with BCCI general manager (operations) Saba Karim and NCA chief operating officer Tufan Ghosh, will kick-start the interview process of shortlisted candidates for some of the vacant coaching and support staff positions at NCA.
After inviting applications for the posts of batting coach, pace bowling coach along with trainers and physiotherapists, the BCCI has shortlisted candidates for each of these positions.
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