India's trouble-shooter VVS Laxman saved the team's honor many times, kept taking command when the head coach took rest, Video

Cricket News Desk. A major change has been made in the Indian cricket team for the South Africa tour. India's tour of South Africa is going to start from November 8, where a four-match T20 series will be played till November 15. VVS Laxman will be the coach of the Indian team in place of Gautam Gambhir for the four-match T20 series.

Who will be in Laxman's support staff?
Laxman's support staff on the tour will include other coaches from the Bengaluru-based National Cricket Academy (NCA) like Sairaj Bahutule, Hrishikesh Kanitkar and Subhdeep Ghosh. Bahutule (head coach), Kanitkar (batting coach) and Ghosh (fielding coach) were part of the India Emerging team that participated in the Asia Emerging Cup tournament in Oman.

VVS Laxman: Not called 'very, very special'

Laxman has taken charge of the coaching of Team India
VVS may have Laxman in his name, but his work is no less than that of trouble-shooter Hanuman. Whenever Gambhir's former coach Rahul Dravid took a break, VVS Laxman used to play the role of Hanuman. He was also appointed the coach of Team India for the 5-match T20 series against Australia immediately after the ODI World Cup 2023. Before this he was the head coach in the T20 series against Ireland. Apart from this, after the T20 World Cup last year, he has also played the role of head coach in the ODI and T20 series against New Zealand. He is currently the director of the National Cricket Academy (NCA). Not only this, he is also the head coach of the Under-19 men's team.

T-20 team: Suryakumar Yadav (captain), Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson (wicketkeeper), Rinku Singh, Tilak Verma, Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Hardik Pandya, Axar Patel, Ramandeep Singh, Varun Chakraborty, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh, Vijay Kumar Vishak, Avesh Khan, Yash Dayal.