Rahul Dravid: Recently, the tenure of former Indian veteran cricketer Rahul Dravid as the head coach of Team India ended. Under his guidance, he made the Indian team champion in the ICC T20 World Cup 2024 played in America and West Indies.

This tournament was Dravid's last task as India's head coach. A big news is coming out about him. Actually, this former cricketer will act as a mentor for a big franchise in IPL 2025 to be held next year. For this, he is also going to be paid a hefty fee. Let's know the whole thing in detail.

Rahul Dravid will become the mentor of this IPL team

News 18 Bangla has shared a big information. According to this, Rahul Dravid will now work as a mentor for a big team in IPL 2025. Actually, last season's winning team Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) has given this big offer to the former Indian batsman.

It is worth noting that veteran Gautam Gambhir, who played this role for KKR in the 17th edition of the Indian Premier League, is going to resign from this post soon. Soon, Gautam will be seen taking over the post of head coach of Team India. For this, he will have to leave his old job.

See the tweet here:

KKR has approached Rahul Dravid for the mentor's post. (News18Bangla). pic.twitter.com/PkvLO31em4

— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) July 9, 2024

Crores of rupees were offered for this post

If reports are to be believed, Shah Rukh Khan-owned Kolkata Knight Riders used to pay Gautam Gambhir a hefty fee of 25 crores for taking over as mentor. This means that Rahul Dravid can also be offered the same amount or more next year. However, this legend deserves it too. He made India a world champion under his guidance.

Such was his tenure for Team India

Rahul Dravid took over as the head coach of Team India in the year 2021. Since then, under his guidance, the Indian team has managed to reach the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup 2022, the final of the World Test Championship, the final of the ICC World Cup 2023. At the same time, in the ICC T20 World Cup 2024, the Men in Blue captured the trophy under the captaincy of Rohit Sharma.