Gautam Gambhir’s Want Granted? Ex-KKR Pacer To Turn out to be India’s Bowling Coach: Report

Former South Africa quick bowler Morne Morkel is prone to develop into the following bowling coach of the Indian cricket group, in line with a News18 report. The report claimed that discussions are at present underway between the quick bowler and the Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) after his identify was beneficial by new head coach Gautam Gambhir. Morkel performed for Kolkata Knight Riders within the Indian Premier League (IPL) and he was a part of the 2014 facet that received the title underneath Gambhir’s captaincy. “The formalities have not been accomplished but however they’ll hopefully be accomplished quickly and Morne Morkel is prone to come on board after the Sri Lanka collection,” says a supply monitoring developments.

Earlier, names like Vinay Kumar, Lakshmipathy Balaji and Zaheer Khan have been doing the rounds for the position however prior to now few days, Morkel has emerged as a powerful contender for the position.

Gambhir and Morkel have additionally labored collectively as a part of the Lucknow Tremendous Giants teaching employees as the previous India star was the mentor and Morkel served because the bowling coach. Morkel additionally has some worldwide teaching expertise as he was the bowling coach of the Pakistan cricket group. 

In Gautam Gambhir’s first task as new India head coach by means of the upcoming white-ball tour of Sri Lanka, Abhishek Nayar and Ryan ten Doeschate are set to hyperlink up with him, whereas T Dilip will proceed to be the fielding coach in the facet.

In accordance to a report in Cricbuzz, Nayar, who performed three ODIs for India, and Ten Doeschate have been appointed as assistant coaches in the Indian group. The duo have been with Gambhir, then serving a mentorship position, in the Kolkata Knight Riders teaching employees when the facet received IPL 2024.

In his time with KKR since 2018, the place he was the coach-cum-academy head, Nayar has been credited for guiding numerous gamers like Shreyas Iyer, Rinku Singh, Varun Chakaravarthy and Venkatesh Iyer by means of his teaching strategies, in addition to for the resurgence of Dinesh Karthik.

Relating to Dilip, the report stated he retains his place as he has carved a status of not solely as an efficient fielding coach but in addition a superb optimistic affect in the dressing room. “He’s believed to be excellent at group bonding workouts, thought of a serious requirement for gamers in a highly-competitive surroundings,” added the report.

(With IANS inputs)