Ravi Shastri to remain Indian cricket team’s Director

Till the BCCI finds a permanent coach, former captain Ravi Shastri has been retained as Director of the Indian cricket team for Bangladesh tour starting June 10.

He is a stop-gap arrangement for the tour till BCCI finds a successor to Duncan Fletcher, whose tenure ended earlier this year after the World Cup.

Earlier this year, Shastri served as Team Director during the tour of Australia and the subsequent World Cup.

"The BCCI wishes to inform that Mr. Ravi Shastri, former India Captain, has been appointed as Director of the Indian cricket team for the tour of Bangladesh, starting on 10 June 2015," BCCI Secretary Anurag Thakur said in a statement.

The BCCI will appoint a new coach only after consulting the newly-formed advisory committee of the body, which comprises cricketing greats Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and VVS Laxman.

India will play one Test and three One-Day Internationals in Bangladesh from June 10.

Meanwhile, Shastri has represented India in 80 Tests and 150 ODIs for India and was part of the side, which lifted the 1983 World Cup.

He had travelled with the Indian team to Bangladesh in 2007 also as cricket manager after Greg Chappell resigned from the coach's post following the World Cup debacle that year.

Tendulkar, Ganguly and Laxman were inducted into the BCCI to guide the Board.

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