Cricket latest
Previous India batter Venugopal Rao will be their brand-new director of cricket
Previous India batter Hemang Badani will take control of as the brand-new head coach at Delhi Capitals (DC) for IPL 2025. In addition to Badani, DC have actually likewise selected previous India batter Venugopal Rao as the director of cricket.
While Badani changes Ricky Ponting, who agreeably parted methods just recently after 7 seasons as head coach, Rao takes control of the function carried out in the previous couple of years by previous India captain Sourav Ganguly. Both consultations become part of the choice taken by the DC ownership to revamp the training personnel and the total running structure of the franchise which has actually never ever won the IPL. The franchise has actually likewise chosen not to restore the agreement with Pravin Amre, who acted as assistant coach and skill scout given that 2014.
“With the mega auction around the corner, my task, in cooperation with the rest of our training personnel, is eliminated,” Badani stated in a franchise release. “I can’t wait to begin.”
ESPNcricinfo has actually found out the recruitment drive to boost the training bench will continue with more assistant coaches and coach to be designated.
As part of the restructuring, the co-owners of DC – the GMR Group and JSW Sports – will switch the functional management functions every 2 years for their groups in the IPL and the WPL; it indicates the GMR Group will take control of the males’s group for the next 2 seasons and JSW Sports the females’s group for 2025 and 2026. Ganguly will take over as director of cricket in the WPL for the next 2 seasons. Ganguly will change back to the IPL from 2027 when JSW Sports will be back in charge. In a media declaration on Thursday, the franchise stated “essential choices like auctions, captaincy, gamer release and retentions of both groups will be made by the Delhi Capitals’ board, and will be chosen equally by senior management of both groups.”
Why Hemang Badani?
While the visit of Badani, who played 4 Tests and 40 ODIs, is anticipated to excite interest, the previous Tamil Nadu captain has actually been an effective coach in the domestic T20 circuit. After becoming part of the Chennai Super Kings (CSK) teams in the preliminary couple of years, Badani was the head coach at Chepauk Super Gillies, who have actually won 4 TNPL titles, among which was shared. With them, Badani played a crucial function in the advancement of young gamers like R Sai Kishore, the present Tamil Nadu captain.
That experience contributed in Badani signing up with the Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) training personnel in IPL 2022. He likewise has training experience in abroad T20 leagues: with Sunrisers Eastern Cape in 2023, when they won the inaugural SA20 title, and with Jaffna Kings, who won the most current season of the Lanka Premier League. He was the head coach at Dubai Capitals (likewise owned by GMR Group) who completed runners-up in the ILT20 this January.
Rao, who played 16 ODIs in between 2005 and 2006, became part of Deccan Chargers’ IPL – winning team in 2009 and has actually likewise become part of Dubai Capitals, initially as coach in the inaugural season and after that as director of cricket.
Nagraj Gollapudi is news editor at ESPNcricinfo