Former team India batsman, wicketkeeper and National Cricket Academy (NCA) chief Rahul Dravid will be coaching the
Indian team set to travel to Sri Lanka for limited-over cricket in July, reported
news agency ANI.

This will reportedly be Dravid’s second work stint with the
Indian team after 2014, when he worked with the batting department of the
national side.

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“The Team India coaching staff will be in the UK and it
is best that the young team is guided by Dravid as he has already worked with
almost all of the India ‘A’ boys. The comfort the youngsters share with him
will be an added advantage,” ANI quoted a BCCI official as saying
regarding the tour, where Dravid will be taking up coaching charges.

The move comes due to absence of Ravi Shastri, Bharat Arun
and Vikram Rathour, who will be travelling to UK with the team-led by Virat
Kohli for Test series against England in August.

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The team travelling to Sri Lanka, while not having been
selected yet, is expected to have many ‘A’ players, who Dravid is
familiar with, having taken up charges of the team alongside the Under-19 squad
in 2015.

The selection of the team is reportedly expected by June end. The players, after reaching Sri Lanka, will have to go through quarantine
before they commence the series consisting of three ODI and three T20I matches.

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The Kohli-led team, meanwhile, are getting ready for a five-test series against England, after playing against New Zealand in the
World Test Championship in June.