Delhi appoints India A fielding coach Abhay Sharma as new head coach

Delhi has appointed former India A and Underneath-19 fielding coach Abhay Sharma as their new head coach forward of the home season beginning October 11.

Who have been the claimants?

Former India spinner and selector Sarandeep Singh was a powerful contender for the submit however the Rohan Jaitley-led DDCA has gone forward with Sharma, who has extra teaching expertise. Sharma’s title was really useful to the chairman by the Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) comprising Nikhil Chopra, Gursharan Singh and Reema Malhotra.

Different appointments

Former India selector Gagan Khoda has been appointed because the chief selector of the senior group, whereas former India pacer Pankaj Singh has been appointed as the top coach of the U-25 group. Khoda, who performed two ODIs for India, hails from Rajasthan. Anil Bhardwaj and Mayank Sidana (former Ranji cricketer from Punjab) are the opposite newcomers within the senior choice panel.

Former Rajasthan Royals fielding coach Dishant Yagnik has been given cost of the senior ladies’s group, whereas India pacer Arshdeep Singh’s childhood coach Jaswant Rai will coach the lads’s U-19 unit. Rai represented Himachal Pradesh throughout his enjoying days.

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A supply within the DDCA stated, “Abhay Sharma has been named the top coach of the senior group.” Sharma has labored extensively with India A, India Underneath-19 and extra just lately with the nationwide ladies’s group.

The 53-year-old, who performed 89 first-class video games representing Delhi, Railways and Rajasthan, was additionally the fielding coach of the Indian group that traveled to Zimbabwe in 2016. He additionally traveled with the Indian group on a tour of the USA and the West Indies in the identical 12 months.

plan forward

With Delhi set to open the Syed Mushtaq Ali marketing campaign in opposition to Manipur, Sharma has lower than two weeks to work with the group, which is but to be introduced.

There was quite a lot of hesitation earlier than the DDCA focused Sharma. One other DDCA supply stated, “It ought to have occurred at the very least two weeks in the past. However the good factor is that many of the teaching workers who’ve been recruited have come from exterior Delhi.”

Final season for Delhi was forgotten after they did not qualify for all three competitions Mushtaq Ali, Vijay Hazare and Ranji Trophy knockouts. The group was coached final season by Virat Kohli’s childhood coach Raj Kumar Sharma and captained by Pradeep Sangwan.

(with PTI inputs)

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