Mahela Jayawardene refused BCCI offers to Coach Team India says, only Interested in Mumbai Indians & Srilanka
Mahela Jayawardene Coach: Team India’s head coach Ravi Shastri is with Team India only till the T20 World Cup. Along with Ravi Shastri, Bharat Arun and fielding coach R Sridhar can also say goodbye after the T20 World Cup.
The BCCI is now in search of a new coach for Team India. According to the news, BCCI had approached Mahela Jayawardene to become the coach of Team India.
Jayawardene Refuses BCCI’s offer
According to a report in the Indian Express, “BCCI approached Mahela Jayawardene with an offer to become the next Indian coach. But he said that he was only interested in coaching Sri Lanka and Mumbai Indians.”
BCCI contacted Mahela Jayawardena with the offer for being the next Indian coach but he said he is interested only in coaching Sri Lanka and Mumbai Indians. (Source – Indian Express)
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Rohit Sharma is the only strong contender to become the captain after Virat Kohli quit the captaincy from T20.
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Rohit Sharma captains Mumbai Indians and Mahela Jayawardene is the coach of MI. In such a situation, it may be in the mind of BCCI that the pair of these two can take Team India to a new level in international cricket as well.
If Mahela Jayawardene did yes to become the coach of Team India. Then it was highly likely that Rohit Sharma would be the new T20 captain.
Mahela Jayawardene has made a name for himself with his excellent performance in coaching in a very short span of time.
Under the coaching of Mahela Jayawardene, the Mumbai Indians (MI) team managed to win the IPL title in 2017, 2019 and 2020. While Southern Brave won the title of The Hundred in his own coaching.
