Mumbai, Jun 29: Batting great Rahul Dravid
will join the Indian team in an advisory role to
prepare for the tour of England. He will be
with the team till the start of the first Test July
9.
“Rahul Dravid, former India captain, has
accepted a request from the Indian team
management, to support and advise the team
in its preparatory stages of the tour of
England, given his vast experience and
knowledge of the game,” Board of Control for
Cricket in India (BCCI) secretary Sanjay Patel
said in a statement Sunday.
“He will be with the team till the beginning of
the first Test.” India have already played a
warm-up three-day match against
Leicestershire (June 26-28) and will take on
Derbyshire in another practice game July 1-3.
India will then play five Test matches against
England from July 9 to Aug 19 followed by five
One-Day Internationals (ODI) from Aug 19 to
Sep 5 and a lone Twenty20 International at
Birmingham Sep 7.
The last time India visited England in 2011,
they miserably lost the four Test series 0-4
which was followed by their 1-2 loss at home
in 2012-13. Dravid was India’s best batsman in
the 2011 tour with 461 runs, three centuries
and a staggering average of 76.83.
