Rahul Dravid likely to travel with Indian national cricket team as head coach to Sri Lanka, Shikhar Dhawan might lead national side

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Xtra Time Web Desk : Former India Great and legendary cricketer Rahul DRavid who is famously known as ‘The Wall’ is likely to travel to Sri Lanka with Team India in the capacity of head coach as confirmed by sources inside the Board of Control For Cricket in India.

As announced by Sourav Ganguly ,president of BCCI, India’s Test squad will be traveling to England for the final of the inaugural edition of the World Test Championship vs New Zealand. That will be followed by a five-match Test series against Joe Root’s England. From June 18 to June 22 at Southampton, Virat Kohli’s men will fight it out vs Kane Williamson’s men. Test series against England will commence from August 4. Which effectively means there will be no competitive cricket for India in the month of July. So BCCI has decided to utilize this free window as Indian team will be traveling to Sri Lanka for three-match ODI and T20I series. It is learned that white-ball specialist will travel to India. This for other Indian cricketers means that a large pool of players will have the chance to attract the attention of the selectors.

It is now learnt that BCCI is planning to send former Indian captain and head of the National Cricket Academy (NCA) Rahul Dravid as the head coach of India B team that will travel to Sri Lanka alongside his NCA team. Indian national team head coach Ravi Shastri will travel to England with the Indian team Test squad. Speculation is on that veteran left handed opening batsman Shikhar Dhawan who was in really godd form with the bat for Delhi Capitals in the recently postponed Indian Premier League can be made stand-in captain of the Indian national team during the Sri Lanka tour as both regular captain Virat Kohli and vice-captain Rohit Sharma are a part of the Test squad and won’t be participating in the Sri Lanka series.