Rahul Dravid will reportedly coach the Indian cricket team in the upcoming series against Sri Lanka in July

• This will be Dravid’s second innings with the national team.
  
  
• Dravid was appointed as the head of NCA in 2019.
  
  
• The Indian team for the Sri Lanka series is expected to be selected at the end of the month.
  

Rahul Dravid, Indian cricketing legend and current head of National Cricket Academy (NCA), has been reportedly selected as the coach of the Indian cricket team for its one-day tour of Sri Lanka in July.

News agency ANI reported, quoting a BCCI official, that Dravid will be heading the team as head coach Ravi Shastri will be in the UK with the test team for the World Test Championship.

This will be Dravid’s second innings with the national team, in a coaching role, after working as a batting consultant on India’s tour of England in 2014.

"The Team India coaching staff will be in the UK and it is best that the young team is guided by Dravid as he has already worked with almost all of the India 'A' boys. The comfort the youngsters share with him will be an added advantage," the official told ANI.

Dravid was appointed as the head of NCA in 2019. He has worked with the India under-19 team and the India ‘A’ team.

As per the ANI report, the Indian team for the Sri Lanka series is expected to be selected at the end of the month.

The team will have to stay in quarantine in Sri Lanka before playing three one-day international (ODI) matches and three Twenty20 Internationals (T20I).

The ODI matches are scheduled for July 13, 16 and 19 and the T20Is are supposed to be played between July 22 and July 27.


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