‘Get an aggressive Australian coach’- Fans react as reports suggesting Rahul Dravid’s comeback as head coach surfaces

After a dream run of 10 unbeaten matches in the ODI World Cup 2023, India’s juggernaut was halted by Australia in the finals at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. With the World Cup final loss, India’s former batting legend and head coach Rahul Dravid’s 2-year coaching tenure with the Indian team also came to an end. 

The current Indian team’s coaching reigns has been given to another former Indian batting maestro VVS Laxman, who was looking after the NCA as a makeshift arrangement till a final call is taken on the future of Rahul Dravid. 

But if the reports by ESPN Cricinfo are to be believed, the Indian Cricket Board has offered an extension to Rahul Dravid to continue as the Head Coach of the Indian Cricket Team which marks that the Board is satisfied with the performance of the team under Dravid’s guidance. However, the tenure of the extension remains open-ended as of now.

India’s next assignment under new coach

If Dravid accepts the extension then his next assignment will be the series against South Africa at their home turf. India is scheduled to tour South Africa next month for a 3T20I and 3ODIs followed by a two-match Test series that will be played at Centurion (26th December) and Cape Town (3rd January).

Rahul Dravid however has not made anything official about his plans but reports are doing the rounds that he may not offer the extension as he wants to spend time with his family and to associate with the Indian team in the capacity of the head coach means that you are on road for most of the times.

Rahul Dravid's journey as the Indian team’s head coach has been full of ups and downs. He joined the Indian team set up after a humiliating ouster from the 2021 T20 World Cup in Dubai in the league stages. After that India reached the semi-finals of the 2022 T201 World Cup, the World Test Championship final in 2022, and finals of the ODI World Cup 2023 but lost all of them.

At the same time, under Dravid’s coaching, India lost the test and ODI series in South Africa, lost the test at Edgbaston which was the last test match of the which was the final test match of the 5-match series due to be played in 2021, and lost the 2022 Asia Cup.

The Indian cricket fans had their say on the appointment of India’s next head coach and shared their views on “X” formerly Twitter. Here are some of the tweets by the ICT fans:

https://twitter.com/Prxtham_18/status/1729569729545650597

https://twitter.com/Vinod_r108/status/1729572200087511047

https://twitter.com/ShubmanGang/status/1729571828157272331

https://twitter.com/SachabhartiyaRW/status/1729569842846433725

https://twitter.com/Paji_Talk/status/1729574129102205085

https://twitter.com/imbb_vhc/status/1729570264764055627

https://twitter.com/mpbsvs/status/1729570113752367202