Rajasthan Royals have Appointed Lasith Malinga as their fast bowling coach ahead of IPL 2022. Lankan great Malinga is considered one of the finest fast bowlers of his time, and he has been a great cricketer throughout his career. The Sri Lankan prolific cricketer has retired from international cricket, and now he is focusing on starting his career as a coach.
Earlier, Lasith Malinga took part in the IPL 2022
Later he was appointed as the more paly of Mumbai Indians. In his first season as a coach, Malinga managed to clinch the IPL trophy for his team. Following the success in IPL, now the batting maestro has been offered the position of coach of IPL franchise Rajasthan Royals, and he finally agreed to the proposal.
In an official statement regarding this, Malinga said, “I have the experience of playing here, and hopefully that will help me in a great deal to get success as a coach.” “IPL is a high-class tournament, and I am all set to work here,” he went on to add.
IPL Career of Lasith Malinga
M | Inn | B | Runs | Wkts | Econ | BBI |
122 | 122 | 2827 | 3365 | 170 | 7.14 | 5/13 |
Despite being a regular participant of the Indian Premier League, Rajasthan Royals have not clinched any trophy. Appointing Malinga as the team’s coach will surely help them in this regard. Rajasthan Royals managing director Kumar Sangakkara said they are very excited as Lasith Malinga agreed to get linked with them. “He is a great lead. He got success in last IPL, and his presence in the squad will be a great help for the cricketers to learn and to adapt quickly,” he went on to add.
Administration and support staff of Rajasthan Royals
Position | Name |
Owners | Manoj Badale, RedBird Capital Partners, Lachlan Murdoch |
CEO | Mike Fordham |
Team Manager | Romi Bhinder |
Director of Cricket | Kumar Sangakkara |
Assistant coach | Trevor Penney |
Batting coach | Amol Mazumdar |
Spin bowling coach | Sairaj Bahutule |
Fast bowling coach | Lasith Malinga |
Fielding coach | Dishant Yagnik |
High-performance fast-bowling coach | Steffan Jones |
The fifteenth edition of the Indian Premier League, commonly known as IPL, will be started on March 26, 2022. Here we are providing IPL today match prediction. Malinga will start his coaching campaign in IPL as recently he has been appointed as the coach of IPL franchise Rajasthan Royals.
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