internet Desk: Former India captain Rahul Dravid is in dilemma whether to take upthe role as next Indian coach after team director’s Ravi Shastri’s contract expired. He made it clear that any decision on taking up coach’s role with the senior Indian team will depend on whether he has the time and “bandwidth” for the high-profile job. Dravid’s name has been doing rounds for the job but he did not give any conclusive reply. The 43-year-old is currently India A and U-19 coach apart from being a ‘Mentor’ with Delhi Daredevils.
“Any decision that I make at this stage of my life would depend on whether I have the bandwidth to do all of these things,” Dravid said during an interaction when asked specifically whether he is ready to take up the chief coach’s role in the senior India team.
“It takes time. You can never really say that now you are ready and now you are not. That’s an experience, a learning. You have to do it to only know. Everyday you do it and you want to learn”, Dravid added. He did say that any decision he takes will be after a lot of consideration.Coaching to him is a process where one learns something new everyday.
“I am quite young in this kind of space. There were a lot of things I didn’t think as a player. As a captain, I had to think about strategy and things like that but not to the depth of what you need to do as a coach. Your mind and energy are diverted to other things, so you think a lot about things that I didn’t think as a player. You make mistakes and then I realise how I could have things differently,” said ‘The Wall’.