UAE are 17th on the ICC Men's T20I Team Rankings and are occupying the 19th spot on the ICC Men's ODI Team Rankings. Muhammad Waseem is the captain of the UAE senior men's team.
On a request from the Embassy of India in Harare, Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) has not sent its national coach Lalchand Rajput, a former India cricketer, along with its team that landed in Pakistan on Tuesday.
Rajput revealed that Dhoni believed in "don't take tension, give tension" policy and hence urged his teammates to stay away from the noise outside and focus only on their strengths.
India were scheduled to play three one-dayers against Zimbabwe starting August 22.
According to Rajput, he shared the training-cum-fitness programme with the team's trainer and Zimbabwe cricket director of coaching, who shared it with the players.
Rajput entering the fray means competition for the batting coach's position could only get tougher with former Test opener Vikram Rathour already emerging as a strong contender to replace incumbent Sanjay Bangar.
Indian aspirants Robin Singh and Lalchand Rajput appeared in person for the interviews at a suburban hotel, while Tom Moody appeared via Skype from Australia.
The battle for the post of the Team India head coach has been narrowed down to six candidates and we take a look at their past coaching stints and experience so far.
Lalchand Rajput has also coached Afghanistan and domestic side Assam apart from a team in the T20 Mumbai League for two years.
Former India opener Lalchand Rajput believes the Virat Kohli-led side has the best bowling attack among the 10 teams to take part in the upcoming World Cup.
Zimbabwe had won their last Test match when they beat Pakistan at home in Harare in 2013.
Rajput was earlier appointed as the interim head coach of Zimbabwe in May for the tri-series involving Pakistan and Zimbabwe and for the ODI rubber against Pakistan.
Kohli, who has scored runs in Australia, South Africa, apart from his home country, had a forgettable 2014 England tour when he was troubled by the seamers, particularly James Anderson.
Rajput replaced former Zimbabwe pacer Heath Streak, who was sacked in March after the team failed to qualify for the next year's World Cup.
Lalchand Rajput believes that Mumbai Indians skipper Rohit Sharma should open the innings for the defending champions as it can give the team a good start.
Rajput, who was the head coach of the Afghanistan cricket team and now coaches the Assam Ranji team, rated India's chances quite highly.
Rashid Khan and Mohammed Nabi also became the first two Afghanistan cricketers to be bought at the Indian Premier League (IPL) auction earlier this year.
The 23-year-old Pandya played a crucial knock in the first ODI against Australia in Chennai, which eventually helped India to win the ODI by 26 runs via Duckworth Lewis method.
Kabul: Former India cricketer Lalchand Rajput was on Saturday named the Afghanistan team's head coach, two days after he lost to Anil Kumble in the race for the India coach job. The 54-year-old replaces former
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