Former Cricket Captain, Ravi Shastri was today named interim coach of the Indian cricket team for the tour of Bangladesh starting from 10th of this month. Shastri, who served as Team Director during the tour of Australia and the subsequent World Cup earlier this year, is a stop-gap arrangement for the short tour as the BCCI is yet to decide on a full-time coach to replace Duncan Fletcher. Announcing the decision the BCCI, Secretary Anurag Thakur said that BCCI President Jagmohan Dalmiya has named Ravi Shastri as interim coach of the Indian team. He said, this is for the Bangladesh tour and future decisions will be taken after this. India will play one Test and three One-Day Internationals during the tour of Bangladesh. Shastri represented India in 80 Tests and 150 ODIs for India and was part of the side, which lifted the 1983 World Cup.