With Gautam Gambhir taking over as Head Coach for Team India, attention turns to who will mentor the franchise next. Gambhir's departure from KKR after their successes in 2024, with assistant coach Abhishek Nayar, who heads the KKR Academy, potentially joining him in the Team India setup, has now left KKR with a significant vacancy to fill.
Under Gambhir's captaincy KKR won two IPL trophies, however, he left the team before the 2018 season to rejoin Delhi Capitals (DC) and retired as a player in that year. Following his retirement, Gambhir spent two years mentoring Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) before returning to KKR ahead of the 2024 season, at the personal request of SRK, to take charge as mentor of the KKR.
Now that Gambhir has assumed the role of Team India Head Coach, recent reports suggest that Shah Rukh Khan and the KKR management are considering Rahul Dravid to mentor the team. According to media reports, Dravid could be offered a pay more than what Gambhir received and also more than what he earned as Team India's head coach.
Amid this, a report by The Telegraph stated that KKR might bring back legendary South Africa all-rounder Jacques Kallis who had coached the team before. Kallis was as a player and coach of KKR. Kallis joined the side in 2011 as a player before replacing Trevor Bayliss as head coach in October 2015.
Former cricketer Gautam Gambhir has been appointed as the new head coach of the Indian men's cricket team. Earlier, on July 1, Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Secretary Jay Shah had confirmed that Team India's new head coach would join the side for the upcoming Sri Lanka series.
After being appointed as the head coach, Gambhir said he was honoured to be back. “India is my identity and serving my country has been the greatest privilege of my life. I’m honoured to be back, albeit wearing a different hat. But my goal is the same as it has always been, to make every Indian proud. The men in blue shoulder the dreams of 1.4 billion Indians and I will do everything in my power to make these dreams come true!" Gambhir said in a post on X.
(With inputs from agencies)
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