Gautam Gambhir will be on leave, VVS Laxman will become the head coach of Team India, can bring gold to India in Asian Games.

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VVS Laxman: A big news is coming out regarding VVS Laxman. This news has surprised all Indian cricket fans. If this news is to be believed, former Indian cricketer and head of Center of Excellence VVS Laxman can become the head coach of the Indian cricket team. In such a situation, a question is arising in the minds of cricket fans whether their favorite coach and former Indian cricketer Gautam Gambhir will be removed from the post of head coach of Team India.

So this is not going to happen at all. Because the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is going to make VVS Laxman the head coach of the Indian team only in the Asian Games 2026. The Indian cricket team can be seen playing under the coaching of Laxman in the Asian Games. At the same time, India is preparing to send its B team to the Asian Games. In such a situation, Laxman will lead that team like Zimbabwe.

VVS Laxman will become India's head coach

Actually, PTI's According to a report by Kushan Sarkar, VVS Laxman will become the head coach of Team India in the Asian Games 2026. Gautam Gambhir will not go to the Asian Games with India, because at that time India will also be playing ODI and T20 series with West Indies. In such a situation, VVS Laxman will go to Japan with India's B team for the Asian Games.

VVS Laxman will bring gold medal to India

Let us tell you that, under the captaincy of Ruturaj Gaikwad, the Indian cricket team won the gold medal in the last Asian Games by winning the final match for India. Now once again as a coach, VVS Laxman would like to get the gold medal for the Indian cricket team. He will have a golden opportunity to lead the Indian team to victory in the final and win the gold medal. He has also won gold for India in the last Asian Games.

Laxman's tenure as coach for Team India

VVS Laxman's tenure as acting coach for India has been good so far. Under Laxman's leadership, India won the T20 series against New Zealand 1-0 in the bilateral series but lost 1-0 in the ODI. He led India to a 2-0 victory in the 2-match T20 series against Ireland in the year 2022. After this, Ireland toured Asia Cup in 2022 but could not register victory. After this, she participated in the Asian Games in 2023 and won the gold medal. Laxman led India to a 4-1 victory in the 5-match T20 series in Zimbabwe in 2024.

Laxman has played a total of 8 bilateral series for Team India so far as head coach. Of these, two were in multi-team events. Till now, he has led Team India to victory in 8 out of 10 assignments. When Rahul Dravid and Gautam Gambhir are the head coaches of Team India. During this period India has won. Zimbabwe won 3-0 in ODIs in 2022, South Africa won 3-1 in the T20 series in 2024, 4-1 in the T20 series with Australia in 2023, 4-1 in the 2024 T20 series with Zimbabwe and now 3-0 in 2026.

VVS Laxman's cricket career

Format Duration match innings unbeaten Run highest score average balls strike rate century half century
Test 1996–2012 134 225 34 8781 281 46.0 17785 49.4 17 56
ODI 1998–2006 86 83 7 2338 131 30.8 3282 71.2 4 10

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