{"id":478,"date":"2015-06-01T23:07:05","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T23:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=478"},"modified":"2015-06-03T14:11:25","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T14:11:25","slug":"former-captain-ravi-shastri-to-coach-india-in-bangladesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=478","title":{"rendered":"Former captain Ravi Shastri to coach India in Bangladesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Ravi-sasthri.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-479\" src=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Ravi-sasthri-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Ravi sasthri\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Ravi-sasthri-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Ravi-sasthri-200x113.jpg 200w, http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Ravi-sasthri.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Former India\u00a0captain Ravi Shastri was on Tuesday named interim coach for next week&#8217;s tour of Bangladesh after officials failed to appoint a full-time successor to Duncan Fletcher.<\/p>\n<p>Zimbabwean Fletcher&#8217;s four-year term ended after the recent World Cup in Australia and New Zealand where Mahendra Singh Dhoni&#8217;s defending champions were ousted in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>Shastri, who was the team director for the tour of Australia and the World Cup, was announced as a stop-gap arrangement for the short visit to Bangladesh to play one Test and three one-day internationals.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian cricket board added in a statement that Shastri would be assisted by batting coach Sanjay Bangar, bowling coach Bharat Arun and fielding coach R. Sridhar, all of whom served with the team in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>The tour begins with the one-off Test in Fatullah from June 10 to 14, followed by three one-day internationals in Dhaka on June 18, 21 and 24.<\/p>\n<p>A full-time coach is expected to be named ahead of a limited-overs tour of Zimbabwe in July.<\/p>\n<p>The board on Monday named Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and V.V.S. Laxman\u00a0to an advisory panel that is likely to play a key role in picking the new coach.<\/p>\n<p>Source: APF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former India\u00a0captain Ravi Shastri was on Tuesday named interim coach for next week&#8217;s tour of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":479,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[17,5,9,10,3,33],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Ravi-sasthri.jpg",620,348,false],"thumbnail":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Ravi-sasthri-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Ravi-sasthri-300x168.jpg",300,168,true],"medium_large":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Ravi-sasthri.jpg",620,348,false],"large":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Ravi-sasthri.jpg",620,348,false],"1536x1536":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Ravi-sasthri.jpg",620,348,false],"2048x2048":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Ravi-sasthri.jpg",620,348,false],"enternews-featured":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Ravi-sasthri.jpg",620,348,false],"enternews-medium":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Ravi-sasthri.jpg",620,348,false],"enternews-thumbnail":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Ravi-sasthri.jpg",480,269,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?cat=4\" rel=\"category\">Stories<\/a>","tag_info":"Stories","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}