Gautam Gambhir appointed as India head coach 

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has appointed Gautam Gambhir as head coach.

 “It is with immense pleasure that I welcome Mr Gautam Gambhir as the new Head Coach of the Indian Cricket Team,” Jay Shah, secretary of BCCI said in a statement on Tuesday.

The 42-year-old Gambhir takes over from batting great Dravid, who finished his stint with the T20 World Cup title in Barbados last month.

Gambhir scored more than 10,000 international runs during his 13-year-long international career for India since his ODI debut in 2003.

He is the only Indian – and one of four international cricketers including Don Bradman, Jacques Kallis and Mohammad Yousuf – to have scored centuries in five successive Test matches.

Gambhir, a left-handed batter who played a key part in India’s ODI World Cup win in 2011, recently coached Kolkata Knight Riders to an Indian Premier League (IPL) crown.