Ravi Shastri has been retained as the head coach of the Indian men’s cricket team. He has been given a two-year extension till the end of the World T20 in 2021.

Ravi Shastri, who is currently with the Indian team in the West Indies, gave his interview via video calling platform, Skype. Robin Singh, Lalchand Rajput and Mike Hesson attended the interview in person at the BCCI headquarters while Tom Moody also gave a Skype interview from Australia.

Notably, Ravi Shastri's contract expired after India's World Cup 2019 campaign but he was handed a 45-day extension to be with the team on their tour to West Indies. Batting coach Sanjay Bangar, bowling coach Bharat Arun and fielding coach R Sridhar's contracts were also extended for the said period.

The Kapil Dev-led Cricket Advisory committee (CAC), which had been deputed to select the new coach, interviewed Shastri and four others in Mumbai on Friday.