Newly appointed head coach of team India Ravi Shastri has demanded Bharat Arun as bowling coach in place of Zaheer Khan. Arun had previously worked with Shastri when he was the Team Director between 2014 and 2016. It was on Shastri's recommendation that then President N Srinivasan gave a go-ahead to Arun's appointment with the senior team when he was the bowling consultant at the NCA.