Former BCCI chief selector MSK Prasad believes India can appoint Rahul Dravid for the role of the head coach and continue with MS Dhoni as team mentor. Dhoni is named as the team mentor for the upcoming T20 World Cup, while Ravi Shastri will be the head coach of Team India for the last time.
Dravid had recently toured to Sri Lanka as head coach with a young Indian side for limited-overs series. However, there's no clarity whether he will replace the current Indian head coach Shastri once his tenure gets over.
But Prasad feels there's no better replacement of Shastri than Dravid and he will be disappointed if BCCI doesn't bring him into the Team India set-up.
"In my heart, I had this feeling. I was challenged recently by my colleagues that definitely post Ravi bhai's era, MS has to come into the role of a mentor and Rahul Dravid as coach.
"These were the discussions I had with my fellow commentators while I was doing commentary during the IPL. I had a feeling that Rahul, being the studious person that he is, will add value to Team India post Ravi bhai's era," he told Sports Tak.
Prasad is confident that the Dravid-Dhoni duo could help Indian cricket move forward. He added that Dravid has groomed a lot of Indian youngsters while working with the juniors in age-group cricket.
"Rahul as a coach, MS as a mentor is going to be a boon for Indian cricket. Both are cool and calm customers and one person is very studious and hard-working. More importantly, the number of players that are evolving right now have been groomed by Rahul, who was India A coach also. So it is some wonderful planning that is happening.
"I will be very disappointed if Rahul is not going to be the coach and MS not a mentor post this management's era," he added.
However, Dravid has recently reapplied for the position of Head of Cricket at the National Cricket Academy (NCA).
(With Sports Tak Inputs)
