A captain sits in the selection committee to give his inputs but decision making power lies with the five-member selection panel while the coach doesn't have a seat on the table.
While Virat Kohli remains the Test skipper, one of the finest white-ball exponents and star opener, Rohit Sharma has been appointed as the T20 and ODI captain.
Himachal Pradesh on Sunday stunned the mighty Tamil Nadu in the final of the Vijay Hazare Trophy.
A few months before the 2019 World Cup, captain Virat Kohli had said that Rayudu would be the team's no 4 for the tournament. However, when MSK Prasad led the selection committee picked the squad for the mega event, Rayudu was not selected.
Kohli, who has taken rest for the T20 series and one Test against New Zealand to recover bubble fatigue in COVID times, has relinquished captaincy in the shortest format after the showpiece event.
While India failed to qualify for the semifinals of the ICC T20 World Cup in the UAE, the Shastri-Kohli duo along with bowling coach Bharat Arun and fielding coach R Sridhar were part of a set-up that won two Test series in Australia.
Ahead of India's final T20 World Cup game against Namibia, Shastri had said that his players were mentally and physically exhausted after six months of bubble life and a longer break between IPL and the ICC event would have served them better.
The T20 World Cup game against Namibia was Shastri’s last day in the office as the head coach.
The 59-year-old was a celebrated commentator before he became the head coach of the Indian team. That stint ended on Monday with the side's last match of the T20 World Cup here against Namibia.
Shastri, whose tenure with the Indian team ended after the final World Cup game against Namibia on Monday, said the players needed a longer break between the IPL and World Cup.
Ravi Shastri, who completed his highly eventful tenure as India's head coach, feels that Rohit Sharma is 'ready and capable' to take over the T20 captaincy from Virat Kohli.
Under Kohli and Shastri, India scripted history by becoming the first Asian team to beat Australia in a Test series in their own backyard.
Team India were 'mentally and physically drained' during the T20 World Cup and didn't even 'try to win' as it wasn't switched on during pressure situations in big games, says outgoing head coach Ravi Shastri.
The legendary Kapil Dev feels Virat Kohli's admission of his team not being brave enough in the T20 World Cup loss to New Zealand is a 'very weak statement'.
Shastri said that IPL has been an ideal preparatory ground for the Indian players, most of whom are regulars for their respective franchises.
Two days after Indian skipper Virat Kohli announced he will step down from T20 captaincy duty after the ICC T20 World Cup, a major reshuffle in the upper echelons of Team India management seems imminent.
Shastri, R Sridhar, Bharath Arun and Nitin Patel were found infected during the Oval Test, and the fifth Test was eventually called off after India's junior physio Yogesh Parmar also tested COVID positive.
Ravi Shastri has hinted that he might step down as Team India's head coach after the 2021 T20 World Cup.
The 56-year-old hoped the decision to cancel the fifth and final Test between England and India in Manchester was not made to prioritise the second leg of the Indian Premier League.
Former Indian cricketer Dilip Doshi has claimed that members of the Indian team attended the now-infamous book launch of coach Ravi Shastri without masks.
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