SecondSlip Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 Quote Anil Kumble has been appointed as the head coach of Kings XI Punjab in the IPL from the upcoming season, while also being put in charge of "all cricket-related affairs" of the team for the foreseeable future, co-owner of the franchise Mohit Burman has confirmed. The appointment makes Kumble the only Indian coach in the IPL. Burman also informed ESPNcricinfo that Kumble would make a presentation to the team management on his plans for the road ahead on October 19. On the same day, an update on R Ashwin's future with the team is also expected. As ESPNcricinfo had reported on September 3, there were talks between the franchise and Delhi Capitals for Ashwin, Kings XI's captain for the last two IPL seasons, to be traded out. Burman said that the final call on that would be taken by Kumble, who recently lavished praise on the offspinner in an interview with Cricketnext.com, saying, "he is still the best spinner that you have." Kings XI were coached by Mike Hesson, the former New Zealand men's coach, last season, and Kumble's appointment makes it five coaches in five seasons for the team. Sanjay Bangar was in charge between 2014 and 2016 before Virender Sehwag, who was already their mentor, became head of cricket operations in 2017, followed by Brad Hodge and Hesson taking over as head coach in 2018 and 2019, respectively. The results, however, didn't change dramatically even as the support staff did, with the team finishing bottom of the eight-team table in 2015 and 2016, before improving somewhat to end at fifth, seventh and sixth in the last three seasons. In 2014, they were the table-toppers but lost the final to Kolkata Knight Riders, which was their only appearance in the final four after the inaugural season in 2008, when they made the semi-finals. As for Kumble, who served as head coach of the India men's team between 2016 and 2017, Kings XI will be the third IPL team he will be involved with. He started out as a player - and later captain - with Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2008. He was then appointed as a mentor by the same team, before joining Mumbai Indians in a similar role in 2013. He left the position in 2015 and subsequently took up the job with the India team, which he stepped down from after the 2017 Champions Trophy, calling his relationship with captain Virat Kohli "untenable". Kumble was also one of the members on the inaugural Euro T20 Slam's advisory committee, but the league was cancelled two weeks before its scheduled start in August because of financial issues. https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/27818751/anil-kumble-appointed-kings-xi-punjab-head-coach Under_Score 1 Link to comment
Ankit_sharma03 Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 I dnt think he will let go off ashwin in that case Link to comment
nevada Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 Kings X1 vs RCB will be an interesting match-up. Link to comment
Suhaan Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 8 hours ago, Under_Score said: Hopefully Captain Ashwin stops his experiments & listens to the Gentleman Cricketer from Namma Bengaluru I would rather love ,him mankading Virushka and kiss him goodbye to the pavilion beetle 1 Link to comment
Ankit_sharma03 Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 8 hours ago, Under_Score said: Hopefully Captain Ashwin stops his experiments & listens to the Gentleman Cricketer from Namma Bengaluru more the captain coach KXIP experimentation problem is every season n huge reason is team owner who interferes a lot Last year joy bhattacharya did mention that he had a word with few ppl inside KXIP camp and they told how badly KXIP owners interfere , they have no patience as evident with their auction n changing coaching staff every year Link to comment
shychipmunk Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 On 10/11/2019 at 8:02 PM, nevada said: Kings X1 vs RCB will be an interesting match-up. Imagine next IPL's final between RCB & KXIP, and the latter winning by 1 run! nevada 1 Link to comment
bowl_out Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 What's Ashwin's situation with respect to the Delhi transfer. The last I read was there were some issues with the transfer and might not happen eventually Link to comment
wolfcricket Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 https://sportstar.thehindu.com/cricket/ravichandran-ashwin-kings-xi-punjab-ness-wadia-ipl-kumble-joshi-rhodes/article29656692.ece Ashwin set to stay Link to comment
Vijy Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 pity that kumble was not selected by RCB. I wanted to see more rat drama. Link to comment
maniac Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 (edited) Congrats Kings X1 Punjab fans. now you guys will produce some amazing local future talent like Krishnappa Bangarappa Singh yedurappa Gowda sidhu Sidirammiah Raj Kumar Basavappa Kalra Edited October 14, 2019 by maniac Under_Score 1 Link to comment
maniac Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 ^ joke though .good move Under_Score 1 Link to comment
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