look news india
Afghanistan Cricket Team: The Afghanistan cricket team has made a big change in its coaching setup. Asia's fastest growing cricket team has included an Indian legend in its coaching team. The Afghan team hopes that just like Ajay Jadeja raised the level of his performance by working with them in the ODI World Cup, the Indian will also contribute in the same way. The Afghan team has appointed Indian veteran player R Sridhar as the assistant coach.
Coach built for two series
54-year-old R Sridhar has been appointed assistant coach by the Afghanistan cricket team for the series against New Zealand and South Africa. Let us tell you that Afghanistan has to play a Test against New Zealand while it has to play a series of 3 ODIs against South Africa. Both these series will be played in India. The Afghanistan team's social media post also said, “We would like to work with Sridhar for a long time.” This means that if Afghanistan performs well in both the series, then Sridhar can be made a part of the coaching of the Afghan team for a long time.
He has coached the Indian team
R Sridhar is a big name in the world of coaching. He has also coached the Indian team. Sridhar has been the fielding coach of the Indian team from 2014 to 2021. Level three certified coach Sridhar has been the assistant coach of India's Under-19 team. He has also worked with Punjab Kings in the IPL. He has been the President of the Tripura Cricket Board. Along with this, he has also been the assistant fielding and spin bowling coach at the National Cricket Academy. Talking about cricket career, Sridhar has scored 574 runs and taken 91 wickets in 35 List A matches. At the same time, he has also played 15 List A matches. He used to play for Hyderabad in domestic cricket.