Delhi Capitals in touch with Indian World Cup winners for coaching roles: Report

Delhi Capitals (DC) is reportedly in touch with two former World Cup winners to join their coaching staff after parting ways with head coach Ricky Ponting. As per a report in News18, DC are interested in hiring Indian cricketers who have a good knowledge of international as well as domestic cricket.

It also added that Director of Cricket Sourav Ganguly is highly unlikely to take up the head coach role as the franchise wants a “more hands-on” coach.

“Ganguly already has a lot of things on his plate – planning multiple things for the franchise as the Director of Cricket. The team needs a very hands-on coach who follows the circuit very aggressively. Like Gautam Gambhir does. It’s no surprise that he has been so successful as a mentor," a source told News18 CricketNext.

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“He keeps track of players – both international and domestic. The management doesn’t want a stop-gap arrangement for the head coach position as it’s the season right after the mega auction as the new cycle gets underway.”

DC are also looking to overhaul their scouting team which did not have experienced cricketers in its ranks.

“The only person who had played some sort of cricket in the scouting team was Jagrit Anand (white-ball games for Delhi). After he was let go, the remaining two Shyantanu Chokhani and Adhishwar haven’t played any serious cricket. And no wonder the returns of the scouting team have been very underwhelming. Is there one cricketer who comes to mind which was unearthed by the scouting team? No,” added the source.

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Ponting coached DC from 2018 for seven seasons, guiding them to the IPL 2020 final but they failed to win the title.