Hemang Badani named Delhi Capitals head coach


Previous India player Hemang Badani will take over as the new lead trainer at Delhi Capitals (DC) for IPL 2025. Alongside Badani, DC have likewise named previous India hitter Venugopal Rao as the overseer of cricket. While Badani replaces Ricky Ponting, who genially headed out in different directions as of late after seven seasons as lead trainer, Rao assumes control over the job acted in the beyond couple of years by previous India commander Sourav Ganguly. The two arrangements are essential for the choice taken by the DC possession to upgrade the instructing staff and the general running construction of the establishment which has always lost the IPL. The establishment has additionally chosen not to restore the agreement with Pravin Amre, who filled in as partner mentor and headhunter starting around 2014. "With the uber sell off around the bend, my work, as a team with the remainder of our training staff, is removed," Badani said in an establishment discharge. "I can hardly stand by to get everything rolling." As a feature of the rebuilding, the co-proprietors of DC - the GMR Gathering and JSW Sports - will trade the functional influential positions like clockwork for their groups in the IPL and the WPL; it implies the GMR Gathering will assume control over the men's group for the following two seasons and JSW Sports the ladies' group for 2025 and 2026. Subsequently, Ganguly will take over as head of cricket in the WPL for the following two seasons. Ganguly will change back to the IPL from 2027 when JSW Sports will be in the driver's seat once again. In a media proclamation on Thursday, the establishment said "key choices like sales, captaincy, player delivery and maintenances of the two groups will be made by the Delhi Capitals' board, and will be chosen commonly by senior initiative of the two gatherings."