Rahul Dravid is the right candidate to coach India during Sri Lanka tour, feels Inzamam ul Haq

The coach of India’s tour to Sri Lanka is currently the hot topic of discussion with Rahul Dravid being the frontrunner for the role to coach the team that will be travelling to the Island nation to play a white-ball series. Indian skipper Virat Kohli will be away with head coach Ravi Shastri in England and that is the reason why Dravid’s name has come up.

Dravid has previous experience of coaching when he was appointed the batting coach on India’s tour to England in 2014. He has also coached the Under-19 since 2016. Experts and critics alike are already happy with the thought of the 48-year-old taking the job of head coach. Former legendary Pakistan batter Inzamam-ul-Haq too is one of them.

“I had mentioned Rahul Dravid earlier as well, how he started producing players from the Under-19 group, who have gone on to play for the Indian team on a regular basis. And even now I ‘m hearing that the team which is going to Sri Lanka, Rahul Dravid could be its coach, he could look after it. I think that’s an amazing, interesting idea,” Inzamam said on his YouTube channel ‘The Match Winner’.

Inzamam praises India’s domestic structure of producing good players

The former Pakistani batter also lavished praise on India for producing a strong backup of players and is simply stunned by the prospect of India playing two series simultaneously.

“India are bringing a change in world cricket and I believe whichever nation strengthens its base, improves its First-Class structure, that country would be able to do what India are doing now, fielding two different international teams almost at the same time. If India are able to successfully pull it off, it will set a benchmark for the rest of the teams,” the 51-year-old said.

The BCCI will most likely announce the squad to tour Sri Lanka next month with players such as Deepak Chahar, Sanju Samson, Ishan Kishan and Hardik Pandya among the mix. The fringe players will surely try to make an impact before the ICC T20 World Cup 2021 to be held in India in the month of October.