Rahul Dravid recently oversaw India’s T20 World Cup triumph in the capacity of head coach. (PTI Photo)
This won’t be the first time that Dravid will be involved with former IPL champions RR. He was their second captain having taken over from the late Shane Warne.
Former India coach Rahul Dravid is set to return to the Indian Premier League as the coach of Rajasthan Royals. Dravid recently finished his term as the Indian men’s cricket team head coach which ended with the 2024 T20 World Cup.
As per a report in Espncricinfo, Dravid recently signed a deal with the franchise and has had initial conversations on player retentions ahead of the upcoming mega auction.
This won’t be the first time that Dravid will be involved with former IPL champions RR. He was their second captain having taken over from the late Shane Warne.
Dravid was 39 when he was handed over the RR captaincy in 2012 and led them in 40 matches of which the franchise won in 23. He later served as their mentor for two seasons (2014, 2015) before being named coach of India’s U-19 and ‘A’ teams.
Under Dravid, India won the 2018 U-19 World Cup before he joined the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bengaluru as the head of its cricket operations. He then succeeded Ravi Shastri as the men’s team head coach in 2021 and concluded his stint with a victorious campaign at the 2024 T20 World Cup.
The report further added that RR are also likely to sign former India batter Vikram Rathour as one of Dravid’s assistant coaches. Rathour, a former India selector, was part of Dravid’s coaching staff at NCA before he became India’s batting coach in 2019.
