IPL 2023 – PBKS Hunt for New Coach – Punjab Kings Anil Kumble Part ways: As reported by InsideSport at the start of this month, Punjab Kings (PBKS) and their coach Anil Kumble has officially parted ways. PBKS board decided not to renew the contract of former India captain. The Punjab franchise is now actively looking for a new coach for the IPL Season in 2023. InsideSport has learnt that team is in talks with former England captain Eoin Morgan to replace Kumble. Other than Morgan, Paul Collingwood & Trevoy Bayliss is also on team’s radar: Follow IPL 2023 LIVE Updates with InsideSport.IN
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IPL 2023: Punjab Kings starts SHOPPING for NEW COACH after parting ways with Anil Kumble: Check DETAILS
Punjab Kings Anil Kumble Part ways: The decision to let Kumble go was taken by a board comprising multiple owners, including Bollywood actor Preity Zinta, industrialists Mohit Burman, Ness Wadia and Karan Paul and Kings’ chief executive officer Satish Menon.
It is learnt that they are on the lookout for a new coach, who will be announced soon.
PBKS under Anil Kumble
- Kumble joined Kings in 2020.
- In all three of the seaons that he was in charge of the team, they finished in the lower half of the IPL points table:
- IPL 2020 and IPL 2021 finished in LOWER Half of points table
- IPL 2022 PBKS finished 6th.
- Kumble was in charge of 42 matches. He won 18, lost 22 and tied two games. That is the second worst win-loss ratio for any team in IPL since 2020, only behind Sunrirsers Hyderabad.
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One of the original eight teams in the IPL, Kings – erstwhile called Kings XI Punjab – have made the play-offs only twice, including an appearance in the final in 2014.
Constant chopping and changing of captains and coaches has hurt the franchise despite assembling a well-rounded squad at the 2022 auction. The big buys included the England pair of Liam Livingstone and Jonny Bairstow, South Africa fast bowler Kagiso Rabada, senior India batter Shikar Dhawan, and West Indies bowling allrounder Odean Smith.
Ahead of the auction, Kings had retained the Indian pair of Mayank Agarwal and Arshdeep Singh.
While Arshdeep’s skills and consistency made headlines during the tournament, and earned him a place in the national side, Agarwal struggled badly. Appointed as Kings’ captain last season, he managed only 196 runs at an average of 16.33 and a strike rate of 122.5. This performance was in complete contrast to the way he played in three previous IPLs. In 2019, Agarwal scored 332 runs at a strike rate of 141.88; in 2020, he got 424 runs at 156.45 and in 2021, he made 441 runs at 140.44.
ESPNcricinfo experts Ravi Shastri and Daniel Vettori believed the question of whether or not to retain Agarwal as captain would be on top of the review list for Kings ahead of the 2023 season. Shastri felt that the added responsibility had an adverse effect on Agarwal’s output as a batter, which in turn resulted in his missing out on being selected to the Indian team for a T20I series against South Africa in June immediately after the IPL.
Kings have refuted media reports quoting unnamed franchise officials speculating about Agarwal’s future as captain. It has been learnt that a final call on the matter will be taken by the new head coach.
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