Former India quick bowler Ashish Nehra will likely be Ahmedabad IPL franchise’s head coach through the 2022 Indian Premier League season whereas England opener of yesteryears Vikram Solanki is in line to grow to be ‘Director of Cricket’.
World Cup-winning former India coach Gary Kirsten would be the ‘Mentor’ of the franchise which is anticipating to get its formal ‘Letter of Intent’ (LOI) through the month.
“As far as I have heard, they have signed Ashish as their head coach and someone who would be in overall charge of the franchise. Solanki will be the ‘Director of Cricket’ and also expected to double up as batting coach and Kirsten will be in a mentorship role,” a senior IPL supply informed PTI on circumstances of anonymity.
“The Ahmedabad franchise can’t announce it formally as it is a BCCI diktat and they can only make a formal announcement after they get the LOI. The head honchos of Ahmedabad franchise has already interviewed the trio and short-listed them for the season,” the supply mentioned.
Nehra has earlier been a coach with Royal Challengers Bangalore the place Kirsten was additionally concerned for a few seasons.
Both of them have had a protracted and fruitful working relationship for the reason that time when Nehra was a participant and Kirsten his nationwide coach.
Nehra shares an awesome rapport even with Solanki, who has labored beforehand as a coach in IPL.
Once it will get the inexperienced mild from BCCI, the franchise will go forward and choose a couple of assistant coaches.
Nehra had been away from teaching for 2 seasons as he had determined that he can be taking on such an task provided that he has the profile of a head coach the place he could make a distinction each when it comes to workforce composition and technique.
He had a number of affords from numerous IPL franchises however it’s understood that the previous left-arm speedster is extra eager on taking on the problem of constructing a crack workforce from scratch.
Both Nehra and Kirsten had been unavailable for remark.
