Forward of the upcoming IPL 2025, the Delhi Capitals franchise have introduced the previous England cricketer Kevin Pietersen as their new mentor for the season. The announcement was made on Thursday, February 27 by way of their DC Fan Sabha App.
The 44-year-old will be a part of fingers with the top coach Hemang Badani, assistant coach Matthew Mott, bowling coach Munaf Patel and the Director of cricket Venugopal Rao. The franchise is but to call their captain for the season forward.
Pietersen, who final performed within the IPL in 2016, will likely be teaching for the primary time. From 2009 to 2016, he performed for 3 IPL groups, together with Delhi (then referred to as the Daredevils), and he even captained 17 occasions. Within the IPL 2009, he led Royal Challengers Bengaluru for a short while earlier than main Delhi Daredevils for a complete season in 2014, once they completed final within the standings with two wins in 14 video games.
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03:07 PM · Feb 27, 2025
As well as, Pietersen captained England in 15 worldwide matches, together with a 2008 Check collection in India that lasted two video games.
Pietersen has stored up contact with Kiran Kumar Grandhi, chairman of GMR, the co-owners of the Delhi Capitals franchise, ever since he captained Delhi within the 2014 Indian Premier League. He assisted in negotiating a historic settlement between GMR and Hampshire County Cricket Membership in September of final 12 months. In 2024, Pietersen and Grandhi additionally went to the Utilita Bowl to see England play Australia within the T20I.
Apart from this, Pietersen has appeared within the Massive Bash League (BBL), Pakistan Tremendous League (PSL) and Caribbean Premier League (CPL). He performed 200 T20 matches in whole, scoring 5695 runs at a strike price of 137 and a mean of 33.89.
After letting go of most of their costly gamers and maintaining solely Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Tristan Stubbs, and Abishek Porel, DC, who’ve solely made it to the IPL closing as soon as in all these years, completed sixth within the 2024 event and entered the public sale final 12 months with the biggest purse of all ten groups. Subsequently, they expanded their roster to incorporate KL Rahul, Harry Brook, Faf du Plessis, and Mitchell Starc.
The Dubai Capitals simply gained the ILT20 title, the primary trophy gained by a Capitals workforce in males’s or girls’s competitions worldwide, underneath the teaching of Badani, Rao, and Munaf, their Indian help workers.
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