Gautam Gambhir has become the new head coach of India and soon the names of the team's new batting, bowling, and fielding coaches will also be revealed. Meanwhile, a big news has come out. Actually, according to media reports, Gautam Gambhir has put forward the name of his favorite player to the BCCI for the bowling coach. This legendary player is none other than Gautam Gambhir's old IPL teammate Morne Morkel.

Morne Morkel will be India's new bowling coach

According to Cricbuzz report, Gautam Gambhir has requested BCCI to appoint Morne Morkel as India's new bowling coach. Let us tell you that Gautam Gambhir and Morne Morkel were recently working together for Lucknow Super Giants in IPL. Gambhir worked as the mentor of Super Giants for two years and during this time Morne Morkel was the bowling coach of the team. This is the reason that there is a good relationship and coordination between these two legends, due to which Gambhir wants to see him as the bowling coach of Team India.

He has also been the coach of Pakistan team

It is worth noting that recently Morne Morkel was working as the bowling coach of the Pakistan team. He was present with the Pakistan team as a coach in the last ODI World Cup which was played in India, but the team's performance in the tournament was very poor, due to which Morkel thought it right to leave the team before the end of his tenure.

International cricket was great

If we talk about Morne Morkel's international career, he played 86 Tests, 117 ODIs and 44 T20 matches for South Africa in which he took 309 Test wickets, 188 ODI wickets and 47 T20 wickets. Overall, as a player, he played excellent cricket for South Africa.

These veterans can also become the new coach of Team India

Let us tell you that apart from Morne Morkel, former Indian team players Vinay Kumar, Zaheer Khan and Lakshmipati Balaji are also in the race to become India's new bowling coach. Apart from this, the names of Jonty Rhodes and Ryan Ten Doeschate are coming up as the fielding coach of Team India. Abhishek can become the batting coach.