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Brian Lara takes over from Tom Moody as Sunrisers head coach

Lara was part of the SRH management last season, when the team finished in eighth place

 

Brian Lara has replaced Tom Moody as head coach of Sunrisers Hyderabad for the 2023 IPL season. Lara was part of the SRH team management last season as a strategic advisor and batting coach, and this will be his first assignment as a head coach of a T20 team.

It is learned that Moody and Sunrisers came to a mutual agreement to part ways. Moody was recently appointed director of cricket at Desert Vipers, one of the six franchises in the ILT20, which is scheduled to begin in the UAE in January 2023.

Moody had returned to Sunrisers in 2021 as director of cricket with fellow Australian Trevor Bayliss as head coach. Once Bayliss left after a dismal 2021 season, in which Sunrisers finished last with just three wins, the franchise appointed Moody as head coach, the second time he had held the post. In his highly successful first stint, between 2013 and 2019, Moody had helped Sunrisers reach the playoffs five times and win the IPL in 2016.

Moody's second stint as head coach, however, was not successful: in 2022, Sunrisers finished eighth in the 10-team tournament, with six wins and eight defeats. In the last two seasons, Sunrisers were the worst-performing team in the IPL in terms of wins: in 28 matches, they had nine victories, 18 defeats and one tie.

Moody would have been disappointed considering Sunrisers had assembled a well-balanced squad at the auction, before which they had retained three players: their captain Kane Williamson and the Indian pair of Umran Malik and Abdul Samad. In the first half of the season, Williamson got lucky at the toss, which played a big role in Sunrisers winning five matches in a row. However, they slid down the points table just as fast with five consecutive defeats. Williamson's poor batting form coupled with injuries to two key Indian players - T Natarajan and Washington Sundar - left Sunrisers frustrated.

Those two injuries came immediately after a defeat against Gujarat Titans, which Moody said triggered "negative momentum" from which his team could never recover. "We were small margins away from being in a different position on the table and that could've easily been in the top 4," Moody said on May 22, after Sunrisers ended their season with another defeat.

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Punjab Kings part ways with head coach Anil Kumble ahead of IPL 2023

Punjab Kings decided not to renew head coach Anil Kumble's contract ahead of the IPL 2023 season. During the former leg-spinner's tenure, PBKS failed to reach the playoffs even once.

HIGHLIGHTS

• Kumble was appointed on a 3-year contract in 2020
• During Kumble's tenure, PBKS failed to reach the playoffs even once
• PBKS finished 6th in IPL 2022 under Mayank Agarwal's captaincy

 

Anil Kumble's stint as Punjab Kings (PBKS) head coach has come to an end. The IPL franchise has decided not to renew Kumble's contract and look for other options, moving ahead. The decision to part ways with the former Indian captain was taken by the franchise's top brass, including co-owner and Bollywood actor Preity Zinta. The franchise is expected to announce its new head coach in the near future.

 

 

"Kumble's contract was for three years and now his term is over. It's a mutually taken decision and from here we will find out a suitable replacement for Kumble as the head coach post is vacant," sources in the Punjab team told Sports Tak.

The legendary Indian spinner was appointed as the head coach of PBKS in 2020 but his tenure didn't pan out exactly the way the franchise would have hoped for. Punjab failed to qualify for the playoffs in all three seasons in which Kumble was in charge of the team.

During Kumble's reign, PBKS managed to win just 18 matches out of the 42 fixtures.

The recent development comes a day after Punjab Kings rubbished rumours about Mayank Agarwal being replaced as captain. A few media reports claimed PBKS were going to appoint the English wicketkeeper-batter Jonny Bairstow as their new skipper after a disappointing last season but PBKS were swift to dismiss them. The franchise finished sixth on the points table in the fifteenth edition of the IPL under Agarwal's leadership.

"News reports published by a certain sports News website pertaining to captaincy of the Punjab Kings franchise has been making the rounds in the last few days. We would like to state that no official of the team has issued any statement on the same," PBKS said in a statement.

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Boucher unveiled as new Mumbai Indians head coach

"I look forward to the challenge and respect the need for results"

Mark Boucher has been appointed as the new Mumbai Indians coach, his stint beginning from the 2023 edition of the IPL. The announcement came a day after ESPNcricinfo had reported that Boucher, the head coach of the South Africa men's national team till the end of their campaign at the upcoming T20 World Cup, was the frontrunner for the position. The vacancy opened up after Mahela Jayawardene was elevated to a more global role within the Mumbai Indians group, which now has teams at the IPL, the SA20 league and the UAE's ILT20.

 

"Their history and achievements as a franchise clearly put them up there as one of the most successful sporting franchises in all of world sport," Boucher said of Mumbai Indians in a franchise statement. "I look forward to the challenge and respect the need for results. It's a strong unit with great leadership and players. I look forward to adding value to this dynamic unit."

Boucher announced earlier this week, immediately after South Africa lost the Test series in England 2-1, that he would be stepping down from the position after the upcoming T20 World Cup in Australia.

 

While he might not have extensive experience as a coach on the T20 franchise circuit, Boucher had a run as wicketkeeping coach at Kolkata Knight Riders in the 2016 IPL. Prior to that, he had also played for Knight Riders as well as Royal Challengers Bangalore. Soon after, he moved to take charge as head coach at Titans on the South African domestic circuit before moving to the lead role at the South Africa men's national team.

 

"The way he [Boucher] has transformed South African white-ball cricket in the last two years, he's been brilliant, and he is also someone that we felt thinks differently and will contribute in a very positive way to Mumbai Indians," Jayawardene said in a video released by Mumbai Indians on Twitter. "Especially when we have a group of players with the skillsets that we have, then we have a young group coming through as well. So that transition is something that we need to manage, and we feel that Mark is going to be the best man for that."

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IPL teams to submit list of retained players by November 15

The mini-auction is expected to be held in the third week of December

 

The IPL has started the process for the upcoming mini-auction by asking the ten franchises to submit their list of retained players by November 15. While a date for the auction has not yet been finalised, it is expected to be held in the third week of December.

Unlike the mega auction last year, when two new franchises were added and the old teams could retain a maximum of four players, there is no such cap for the mini-auction ahead of IPL 2023. In addition to the money left over from the previous auction, each team will have an additional INR 5 crore (approx. US $607,000) to spend, making the overall auction purse INR 95 crore (approx. US $11.5 million).

Punjab Kings had the largest purse left - INR 3.45 crore (approx. US $425,000) - after last year's auction, while Lucknow Super Giants had exhausted their entire purse. Chennai Super Kings had INR 2.95 crore (approx. US $358,000) remaining, followed by Royal Challengers Bangalore (INR 1.55 crore, or approx. US $188,000), Rajasthan Royals (INR 0.95 crore or approx. US $115,000) and Kolkata Knight Riders (INR 0.45 crore, or approx. US $55,000). Defending champions Gujarat Titans were left with INR 0.15 crore (approx. US $18,000) while three teams - Mumbai Indians, Sunrisers Hyderabad and Delhi Capitals - had INR 0.10 crore (approx. US $12,000).

Despite franchises having smaller purses, mini-auctions have produced some of the most expensive buys in the past. At the 2021 auction, South Africa fast bowler Chris Morris became the most expensive player after Royals bought him for INR 16.25 crore (then approx. US $2.2 million), which was INR 25 lakhs more than Delhi's winning bid for India allrounder Yuvraj Singh in 2015.

Overseas players have often been big earners at mini-auctions with Pat Cummins getting INR 15.5 crore from Knight Riders in 2020, while Ben Stokes' first IPL pay cheque was INR 14.50 crore from Rising Pune Supergiant in 2017.

Stokes along with his England team-mate Sam Curran and Australia allrounder Cameron Green are some of the overseas players franchises expect to attract the biggest bids if they enter the auction.

Three teams - Kings, Capitals and Super Giants - bought only seven overseas players at the previous auction, so they could be on the lookout to fill up the last spot. Other teams could release one or more of their overseas players to create vacancies and increase their purses.

Also, six franchises had brought in injury replacements during IPL 2022. These franchises will have to decide whether to retain the replacement player or the original player, or both provided the player limit allows. Following is the list of players originally bought and their replacements:

• Adam Milne, replaced by Matheesha Pathirana (Super Kings) 
• Tymal Mills, replaced by Tristan Stubbs (Mumbai)
• Nathan Coulter-Nile, replaced by Corbin Bosch (Royals)
• Mark Wood, replaced by Andrew Tye (Super Giants)
• Alex Hales, replaced by Aaron Finch (Knight Riders)
• Jason Roy, replaced by Rahmanullah Gurbaz (Titans)

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