Sitanshu Kotak set to join Team India as batting coach ahead of England T20Is

Domestic cricket stalwart Sitanshu Kotak is set to take on the batting coach role for the Indian team ahead of the limited-overs series against England at home.

In Short

• Sitanshu Kotak set to join India as batting coach for England series
• India will host England for five T20Is and three ODIs
• Kotak previously served as the India A head coach

Domestic stalwart Sitanshu Kotak is set to join the Indian team as the batting coach ahead of the limited-overs series against England at home. India will host England for five T20Is and three ODIs, their first bilateral series after the Border Gavaskar Trophy.

"Shitanshu Kotak has been asked to join the team from T20S vs England as batting coach," A BCCI source told India Today. The Indian team is currently led by head coach Gautam Gambhir, with Abhishek Nayar and Ryan ten Doeschate serving as assistant coaches, Morne Morkel as the bowling coach, and T Dilip as the fielding coach.

A former left-handed batter and captain of Saurashtra, Kotak previously served as the India A head coach during the tour of Australia in November last year and the Jasprit Bumrah-led Indian T20I team’s tour of Ireland in August 2023.

Kotak boasts an impressive first-class career, amassing 8,061 runs in 130 matches at an average of 41.76, including 15 centuries and 55 half-centuries, during a span from the 1992–93 season to 2013.

Following his retirement from domestic cricket in 2013, Kotak transitioned to coaching. He began with Saurashtra before joining the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bengaluru as a batting coach. Over the past four years, he has been India A's head coach, overseeing tours to Bangladesh, South Africa, and Australia. Additionally, he served as an assistant coach for the now-defunct Gujarat Lions during IPL 2017.