Gautam Gambhir: In the T20 World Cup 2024, the Indian team has to play its Super 8 match with Afghanistan. The match between India and Afghanistan will be played on the ground of Barbados. For which Team India is preparing hard. While after the T20 World Cup, it is expected that Team India will get a new head coach in the form of Gautam Gambhir.

Because, the tenure of head coach Rahul Dravid will end after June. At the same time, as soon as Gautam Gambhir becomes the head coach, the place of all-rounder Hardik Pandya will be in danger. Because, Gambhir can now give a chance to a great all-rounder player in place of Pandya.

Gautam Gambhir can become the head coach of Team India

Let us tell you that the interview for the head coach was held on June 18. In which former Team India player Gautam Gambhir also gave the interview. After which it has become clear that Gambhir is ready to become the head coach.

According to the latest media reports, BCCI is going to appoint Gautam Gambhir as the head coach and this can be announced very soon. Because, immediately after the T20 World Cup, Team India has to go on a tour of Zimbabwe and before that the head coach has to be announced.

Hardik Pandya may be out

If Gautam Gambhir becomes the new head coach of Team India, then Team India's star all-rounder Hardik Pandya may have to be dropped from the team.

Because, Iyer is a player of KKR team and Gambhir has been the mentor of Kolkata. Due to which it is believed that Venkatesh Iyer may return to Team India again. Iyer played an important role in KKR becoming the champion in IPL 2024.

Cricket Career of Venkatesh Iyer

If we talk about the cricket career of 29-year-old all-rounder Venkatesh Iyer, then he made his debut for Team India in the year 2021.

Venkatesh Iyer has scored 24 runs in 2 ODIs so far. While he has scored 35 runs at a strike rate of 162 and taken 5 wickets in 9 T20 matches. At the same time, Venkatesh Iyer has scored 1326 runs in 50 IPL matches so far and has also taken 3 wickets.