Ravi Shastri against Rahul Dravid being granted rest

Ravi Shastri against Rahul Dravid being granted rest and he asked Dravid What do you need these many breaks for?

Photograph: Michael Steele/ICC/Getty Images

With VVS Laxman taking responsibility for the Indian cricket team as the interim head coach for their 6-match series in New Zealand instead of Rahul Dravid.

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Ravi Shastri has scrutinized the choice of Team India's coaching staff being allowed successive breaks.

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This isn't the 1st time when the Dravid-drove division won't be around as Laxman managed procedures when India visited Zimbabwe and Ireland recently.

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Dravid and Co. needed to give the Ireland tour a miss as the senior crew in Britain preparing for the ODI and T20I series.

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Dravid was missing when India beat Zimbabwe in August, as well as during last month's home series against South Africa.

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Shastri, who when as a coach, was dynamic essentially the whole time regardless of whichever team played.

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Ravi Shastri pointed out that regular breaks can affect the coach-player relationship. For that reason, he went against Rahul Dravid.

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"I don't believe in breaks," Shastri said during a virtual press interview just before the principal T20I between India and New Zealand in Wellington.

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He said, "Since I need to comprehend my team, I need to comprehend my players and I need to then, at that point, be in charge of that team."

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