Ajit Agarkar To Join The Delhi Capitals As Assistant Coach

Former India quick bowler Ajit Agarkar will be part of Delhi Capitals (DC) as their assistant coach, ESPNCricinfo reported on February 22, 2022. It additionally reported that Agarkar will carry out numerous roles whereas performing as one of many deputies to go coach Ricky Ponting. Agarkar may even be a part of the management group comprising Ponting, captain Rishabh Pant, batting coach Praveen Amre, and bowling coach James Hopes.

This appointment comes after the Delhi Capitals determined to not renew the contracts of assistant coaches Mohammad Kaif and Ajay Ratra, who carried out the position for various intervals till the 2021 season. Whereas Kaif served within the position from 2019, Ratra’s stint was restricted to a single season (2021).

Capitals’ project shall be Agarkar’s first time in any teaching position. Agarkar, who’s 44, retired in 2013 though he final performed for India in 2007.

Ajit Agarkar To Be a part of Delhi Capitals Camp After The Sri Lanka Tour

Agarkar will be part of Capitals following India’s dwelling sequence towards Sri Lanka as he’s a part of Star Sports activities’ broadcasting workforce. The Sri Lanka tour, comprising three T20s and two Exams, is scheduled to finish on March 16.

The correct-arm pacer stays the quickest Indian bowler to 50 ODI wickets and accomplished his India profession with 288 wickets in ODIs and 58 in Exams. He famously scored a century in a Check match at Lord’s in 2002 and his highest ODI rating stays 95 towards the West Indies. By the way, he holds the document for the quickest ODI fifty for India, which got here in 21 balls towards Zimbabwe in 2001.

He performed for Kolkata Knight Riders within the first three years of the Indian Premier League after which joined the then Delhi Daredevils from 2011 to 2013. In all, he has performed 62 T20 matches and picked up 47 wickets.

Capitals are driving an enormous success wave in the previous couple of seasons of the IPL, making it into the playoffs within the final three IPL seasons in 2019, 2020, and 2021, this contains an look within the finals of the event in IPL 2020, the place they misplaced to Mumbai Indians.

DC retained Rishabh Pant, Axar Patel, Anrich Nortje, and Prithvi Shaw forward of the IPL 2022 mega public sale. Within the public sale, DC spend huge on Shardul Thakur, David Warner, Mitchell Marsh, Chetan Sakariya, Kuldeep Yadav, and Rovman Powell.

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