Mumbai: Rahul Dravid will continue as India’s head coach after accepting the BCCI’s offer to extend his term.

While the duration of the extension is not yet known, it will be at least until the 2024 T20 World Cup in June.

Dravid became the head coach in November 2021 for a two-year term that ended at the conclusion of the 2023 ODI World Cup earlier this month, where India lost the final to Australia in Ahmedabad.

Cricket news and score update website ESPNcricinfo reported to have learned that the BCCI wanted Dravid to stay on to ensure continuity to the structure he had put in place over the past two years, which might otherwise get disrupted under a new coach.

Dravid’s first assignment in his second stint as head coach is India’s tour of South Africa, which starts with three T20Is and three ODIs from December 10 followed by two Tests, in Centurion (from December 26) and Cape Town (from January 3). India then play a five-Test series against England at home, before the T20 World Cup in June.


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