Team India coach: Virat Kohli's childhood mentor proposes MS Dhoni's name for top job

Amid speculations that BCCI want Gautam Gambhir to assume the role of Team India's head coach, a new proposal has come forth.

Virat Kohli's childhood coach Rajkumar Sharma has suggested the cricket board approach MS Dhoni for the crucial position.

In a conversation with India News, Sharma floated Dhoni's name, 'First of all, it will be interesting to see which names apply for this post. I would like that whoever becomes the coach should be an Indian. If Mahendra Singh Dhoni announces retirement, he can prove to be a good option. He (Dhoni) has played a lot of cricket and has won big tournaments.'

Sharma went on to add that as a coach Dhoni will have the respect of the dressing room given his ICC trophy-winning calibre and will be able to manage a team full of big names much better.

'Being able to plan for the team and manage it properly, is most needed in the team because when Dhoni became the captain, there were big players in that team like Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Rahul Dravid, Harbhajan Singh, Anil Kumble, Gautam Gambhir, and Yuvraj Singh were present. Despite this, Dhoni handled the team brilliantly,' Sharma remarked.

Since his international retirement in 2020, Dhoni has mentored Team India in the 2021 T20 World Cup but is yet to step back from franchise cricket.