After 2024 T20 World Cup, Rahul Dravid‘s time as India’s head coach came to an end. After nearly three years with the team, he had the chance to extend it, especially with captain Rohit Sharma’s support.
However, the former cricket player chose not to. The 51-year-old has experienced both great success and heartache in these years, including defeats to Australia in the World Test Championship 2023 and the ODI World Cup 2023 finals, as well as defeats to England in the T20 World Cup 2022.
Dravid has also observed a recent development in the realm of cricket: workload management. Under Dravid’s tenure as head coach, something that didn’t exist before to the COVID-19 pandemic was in full force. Many of the senior cricket players took occasional rests, which caused some disruption but little harm to the squad.
We have to effectively oversee their workloads in all three types. Due to a few injuries, I spent the first eight to ten months of my tenure working with roughly five or six captains. It was undoubtedly something I hadn’t anticipated,” Dravid was cited by The Telegraph as saying.
The former cricket player described his experience of working with multiple captains during the first few months, saying that he had not seen anything like. Dravid went on to say that he favours continuity over change because the latter leads to a lot of instability and a bad atmosphere.
Since I think that makes a lot of instability and doesn’t produce a very good environment, I actually appreciate continuity and don’t like to chop and change things too often. I consider myself to be a member of the team whose job it is to establish a suitable, safe, secure atmosphere that is hard enough to push individuals without actually instilling a fear of failing. That has always been my goal, he continued.
Currently, the Indore native will be taking a sabbatical from coaching, however he may make a comeback during the IPL. But as of right moment, no franchise has contacted him.
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