Punjab Kings' Head of Cricket Development, Sanjay Bangar cleared the air over his side's captaincy decision with Sam Curran leading the side in Shikhar Dhawan's absence against Rajasthan Royals in IPL 2024. The confusion began when the official IPL handle declared Jitesh as PBKS' vice-captain.
"We have a good core group of players as evidenced by the fact that we have the lowest number of player releases this year. The challenge is to give the squad the best support possible during and after the season to make the team stronger and deliver success," Bangar said.
Team India are likely to make a lot of changes for their final Asia Cup 2023 Super Fours clash against Bangladesh since it's an inconsequential game for both teams with the Men in Blue being already in the final.
The Indian Cricket team will play 6 limited-overs matches against Sri Lanka. Rahul is given a rest from T20Is, and he will be back in the team for ODIs.
Kohli, who hasn't scored a hundred in any format for more than three years now, has got out to first-ball ducks in successive games with a familiar pattern of dismissals outside the off-stump.
Bangar, who was appointed as the side's batting consultant in February, will be taking over the reins from Mike Hesson.
The former Indian opener and batting coach is optimistic of Ajinkya Rahane putting up a strong show with the bat in the upcoming Test series against England.
Chennai Super Kings rode on Jadeja's blistering 62 to post 191/4 against RCB and then restricted the opposition to 122/9, with Jadeja (3/13) and Imran Tahir (2/16) doing the bulk of the damage.
The Indian opener tagged Sanjay Bangar instead of Sanjana Ganeshan in his wedding congratulatory post to the newly-married couple.
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Bangar feels that one area that India might opt to change in the playing XI heading into the second T20I is the opening pair.
For the Delhi-based franchise, the likes of Shikhar Dhawan and Ravichandran Ashwin have been in great form this season.
Bangar recalled an interesting story about why Dhoni curbed his natural instinct to become a 'great' finisher.
CSK have in recent years been known for their tendency to field players who are in the twilight years of their career and yet remaining one of the toughest teams to beat in the Indian Premier League (IPL).
Meanwhile, former New Zealand coach Mike Hesson believes that a coach must gain the confidence of a player in order to make him a better sportsperson.
Sanjay Bangar has said that the skill coaches 'tend to double up' as mental conditioning coaches as they 'spend a lot of time with the players'.
Bangar was offered to coach Bangladesh batsmen in red-ball cricket eight weeks ago but he could not take up the offer as he signed a two-year contract with Star Sports in the interim.
According to reports, the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) is looking to rope in Bangar as the national team's batting consultant specifically for red-ball cricket.
Kuldeep recently returned to India's T20I squad for the West Indies series after a gap of nine months. He had last played the shorter format against New Zealand in February early this year.
Former India batting coach Sanjay Bangar has come out in support of Kuldeep and said that it is important to back the youngster as he is a match-winner by his own right.
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