The BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) secretary, Jay Shah, has lifted the lid on Hardik Pandya‘s health. While chatting with the reporters on the sidelines of the Women’s Premier League (WPL) 2024 public sale, Shah revealed that “Hardik is at the NCA (National Cricket Academy) and is working very hard on his fitness”.
“We are monitoring it on a day-to-day basis. He is at NCA only, he is working very hard and we will let you know in the due course the moment he is fit. He could be fit before the Afghanistan series also,” Shah was quoted as saying by PTI.
Head coach Rahul Dravid’s contract extension
While the apex cricketing governing physique in the nation determined handy a tenure extension to Rahul Dravid as head coach of the senior males’s workforce following India’s heart-breaking loss to Australia in the remaining of the ODI World Cup, his time period of extension is but to be finalised.
Shah talked about that the paucity of time between the World Cup and the South Africa tour was the cause why the tenure wasn’t formalised, however can be executed as soon as the Men in Blue are again on dwelling turf.
“We have given the extension but we are yet to finalise the contract. We did not get time at all, they finished (with the World Cup). I had a meeting with them (Dravid & Co.) and we agreed mutually that they will continue. We will sit down and decide once they return from South Africa,” Shah mentioned.
Notably, Rahul Dravid’s two-year contract got here to an finish with India ending as runners-up at the ODI World Cup. His tenure as head coach noticed the senior workforce play a T20 World Cup semifinal, declare an Asia Cup title, and a runner-up end in the World Test Championship 2021-23 cycle.
