Former India A fielding coach Abhay Sharma roped in as Delhi head coach

Former India A and U-19 fielding coach Abhay Sharma has been appointed as the top coach of the Delhi cricket staff forward of the home season starting October 11.

Former India spinner and selector Sarandeep Singh was one other robust contender for the job however Rohan Jaitly led DDCA has gone forward with Sharma, who has extra teaching expertise. The Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) comprising Nikhil Chopra, Gursharan Singh and Reema Malhotra had really useful Sharma’s title to the president. Former India selector Gagan Khoda has been appointed chief selector of the senior staff, whereas former India pacer Pankaj Singh has been appointed head coach of U-25 aspect. Khoda, who performed two ODIs for India, hails from Rajasthan.

Anil Bhardwaj and Mayank Sidana (former Punjab Ranji cricketer) are the opposite new faces within the senior choice panel. Former Rajasthan Royals fielding coach Dishant Yagnik has been given cost of the senior girls’s staff whereas India pacer Arshdeep Singh’s childhood coach Jaswant Rai will coach the lads’s U-19 unit. Rai represented Himachal Pradesh in his taking part in days. “Abhay Sharma has been chosen as the head coach of the senior team,” stated a DDCA supply. Sharma has labored extensively with India A, India U-19 and most lately the nationwide girls’s staff.

The 53-year-old, who performed 89 first-class video games representing Delhi, Railways and Rajasthan, was additionally the fielding coach of the Indian staff which travelled to Zimbabwe in 2016.

He additionally travelled with the Indian staff on the tour of USA and the West Indies in the identical yr. With Delhi scheduled to open their Syed Mushtaq Ali marketing campaign in opposition to Manipur, Sharma has lower than two weeks to work with the squad which is but to be introduced. Quite a lot of dilly dallying came about earlier than the DDCA zeroed in on Sharma. “It should have happened at least two weeks ago. But the good thing is most of coaching staff which has been recruited has come from outside Delhi,” stated one other DDCA supply.

Delhi had a forgettable final season after they did not qualify for the knock outs of all three competitions Mushtaq Ali, Vijay Hazare and Ranji Trophy. The staff was coached by Virat Kohli’s childhood coach Raj Kumar Sharma final season and captained by Pradeep Sangwan