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Dravid likely to be interim coach for home series vs Kiwis; Reports

The Indian cricket team is likely to have Rahul Dravid as interim coach for the upcoming home series with New Zealand after the ICC T20 World Cup

IND vs SL 3rd T20 highlights: Sri Lanka wins by 7 wickets, seal series 2-1

India is playing its bench strength, while Sri Lanka would want to win the series against weak India. Catch all the updates here

IND vs SL 2nd T20 Highlights: Sri Lanka win by 4 wickets, level series 1-1

In a low scoring match, India managed to put 132 runs, Sri Lanka looked in trouble but managed to clinch a victory

Ind vs SL, 2nd ODI: We responded back like a champion team, says Dravid

India head coach for Sri Lanka series Rahul Dravid delivered a winning speech in the dressing room after the team's memorable victory against Sri Lanka here at the R Premadasa Stadium on Tuesday."We said they were going to respond, we knew. We have to respect the opposition. They are also an international team. They responded and we responded back like a champion team. With our back to the wall, we found a way to win," said Rahul Dravid in a video posted by BCCI."Obviously we finished on the right side of the result which was incredible and fantastic. Very well (done) to all of you. Not the time to talk about individual players but there were fantastic individual performances in the end. But if you look at the whole game, there were very good team performance right across the bowling, batting, and even at the start and guys, in the end, finishing it off. So it was a very fantastic team performance and very well done to you," Dravid said.India needed 16 runs to win in the last three ...

Opportunity for Dravid to create future champions, says Laxman

Former Indian batsman VVS Laxman is of the opinion that Rahul Dravid's appointment as head coach of the Indian team for the Sri Lanka tour is an opportunity for him to create future champions.

Dravid will be coaching the Indian team in Sri Lanka: BCCI Secretary Shah

The team leaves for Colombo on June 28

As 'A' team coach, made sure every player on tour got a game: Dravid

Credited for creating India's talent pool at the under-19 and A level, Former captain Rahul Dravid says as his stint as coach, he made sure that every cricketer who toured got a game unlike his days.

Rahul Dravid to coach Team India on Sri Lanka tour for limited-over series

Before taking over as the head of NCA in 2019, Dravid had worked closely with the current crop of youngsters in the Indian team at the U-19 level as well as in the India 'A' team

Dravid, Ganguly's big hundreds had an incredible impact on me: Buttler

England's swashbuckling batsman Jos Buttler says Indian greats Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly's big hundreds in the 1999 World Cup match against Sri Lanka had an "incredible impact" on him.

India has very good chance this time to win Test series in England: Dravid

Former India skipper Rahul Dravid said that the Virat Kohli-led side has a very good chance of winning the Test series in England

Ind vs Eng: Rahul Dravid told me to focus on line and length, says Siraj

India pacer Mohammed Siraj, who took two important wickets on the opening day of the fourth Test, has credited former skipper Rahul Dravid for helping the fast bowler

Sounds of silence

Wasim Jaffer quit as coach of the Uttarakhand cricket team on Feb 9 after he was accused of being communal. Big guns of Indian cricket, with few exceptions, remained silent

Rahul Dravid told me don't bat a lot in the nets, says Ajinkya Rahane

Former captain Rahul Dravid advised Ajinkya Rahane not bat a lot in the nets and put pressure on himself while leading the Indian team in Australia

Tatenda Taibu reveals Rahul Dravid's advice to tackle Anil Kumble

Former Zimbabwe skipper Tatenda Taibu revealed the advice he received from Rahul Dravid to play better against spin legend Anil Kumble

Rahul Dravid made India's young players mentally tough: Inzamam-ul-Haq

Rahul Dravid had an important role to play in the development of the likes of Rishabh Pant, Shubman Gill and Mohammed Siraj, says Inzamam-ul-Haq

IND vs AUS: Tough ask without Kohli if IND don't win 1st Test, says Kumble

If India don't land the first punch by clinching the opening day-night Test against Australia, the going will get very tough for the visitors in the absence of talismanic skipper Virat Kohli, feels former national coach Anil Kumble. India will start the much-awaited Border-Gavaskar Test series with the day-nighter at Adelaide, from December 17, and Kumble feels that the match will be be the "biggest challenge" for the visitors. Skipper Kohli will return home after the opening Test for the birth of his first child. "If we can stay ahead in the first Test match then India has a great chance to repeat what they did in the last Australia tour," the spin legend said during the Mutual Funds annual conclave 'The Winners' Circle' organised by L&T Financial Services. "Although with (Steven) Smith and (David) Warner coming back, and then Virat (Kohli) missing the three Test matches will obviously be a big factor for India. But having said that, there's enough ability within the team, be it .

IND vs AUS Test series: Rohit Sharma clears fitness test at Bengaluru's NCA

Rohit is expected to fly out in the next couple of days and will have to undergo 14 days of hard quarantine before being able to train for the last two Tests

Use expertise of former players as much as possible: Dravid to state units

Dravid enlightened the administrators with various situations and effective ways of trouble shooting mechanisms

NCA chief Rahul Dravid to be part of BCCI's coronavirus task force

For resumption of training at the NCA in Bengaluru, the Covid task force will include Dravid, a medical officer, a hygiene officer and BCCI AGM, Cricket Operations

BCCI not to punish players if they admit age fudging, otherwise 2-yr ban

The measures will be applicable to all cricketers participating in the board's age-group tournaments from the 2020-21 season onwards