Rahul Dravid Turned Down Offer To Coach Team India: CoA Chairman Vinod Rai

Rahul Dravid has earned plenty of respect for his brilliance with the bat and for holding the true nature of a gentleman in the game. After retirement, he continues to do so, with his sheer humility. Rahul Dravid was offered to coach Team India by the now defunct Committee of Administrators (CoA) but he denied it.

Speaking to Sportskeeda on a Facebook chat, CoA Chairman Vinod Rai said that the committee backed Rahul Dravid to take up the role of Indian cricket team head coach but he denied that citing family reasons. Dravid told CoA that his kids are growing up and he does not finds enough time to spent with them and thus declined the offer.

Vinod Rai said Dravid was very upfront with the committee and it was a fair request on his part to be considered.

“Rahul was very upfront with us. He said, ‘look I have two boys growing up at home and I have been travelling with the Indian team all over the world and I am not able to give time and attention to them, I think I must stay at home also. And give time to my family.’ I think that was a very fair request and though he would have been uppermost in mind. So, he was very much in the zone of consideration,” Vinod Rai said on a Facebook Live Chat with Sportskeeda.

Dravid now serves as the head of National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bengaluru and Rai said that it was very gracious of him to accept that role and commit himself.

“Dravid is a head coach at NCA. He was very kind and very gracious in accepting that and committing himself to the NCA,” Rai said.

Besides serving the NCA, Dravid also has a close eye on the India U-19 and India A teams. He had earlier served these sides as a coach. Under his mentoring, India U-19 finished as runners-up in 2006 World Cup and brought home the 2008 World Cup.