{"id":118770,"date":"2024-08-21T20:19:11","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T20:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/21\/afghanistan-appoint-r-sridhar-as-assistant-coach-for-new-zealand-and-south-africa-series\/"},"modified":"2024-08-21T20:19:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T20:19:11","slug":"afghanistan-appoint-r-sridhar-as-assistant-coach-for-new-zealand-and-south-africa-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/21\/afghanistan-appoint-r-sridhar-as-assistant-coach-for-new-zealand-and-south-africa-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan appoint R Sridhar as assistant coach for New Zealand and South Africa series"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/resize.indiatvnews.com\/en\/centered\/newbucket\/1200_675\/2024\/08\/indiatv-2024-08-21t220630-1724258221.jpg?fit=1200,675&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Afghanistan appoint R Sridhar as assistant coach for New Zealand and South Africa series\" title=\"Afghanistan appoint R Sridhar as assistant coach for New Zealand and South Africa series\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"atimgbign\" id=\"story-featured-image\" style=\"display: inline-block;\">\n<figure class=\"artbigimg row\"><figcaption><span class=\"author\">Image Source : GETTY<\/span> Former India fielding coach Ramakrishnan Sridhar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"artconfp\">The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) announced the appointment of\u00a0Ramakrishnan Sridhar as an assistant coach to the men&#8217;s senior team on Wednesday. Afghanistan named the former Indian first-class cricketer and national team fielding coach as an assistant coach to\u00a0Jonathan Trott for the upcoming assignments against New Zealand and South Africa.\u00a0  <!-- \/8323530\/ITv_Desktop_VDO_1X1 -->\n  <\/p>\n<p>The 54-year-old Sridhar played for Hyderabad in domestic cricket and famously held a fielding coach role during Ravi Shastri&#8217;s reign as the head coach of the national team till 2021. Sridhar also held head coach roles with Andhra and Tripura state teams and was a fielding coach for Kings XI Punjab in the Indian Premier League.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The ACB confirmed that Sridhar will join Jonathan Trott-led coaching staff but only for a one-off Test against New Zealand in Noida starting on September 9 and for the three ODIs against South Africa in Sharjah from September 18. However, the statement added that the possibility of a permanent role for the Indian cricketer\u00a0in the future.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sridhar is a Level-3 certified coach who has served the Indian U19 national team as Assistant Coach and Spin Bowling Coach too,&#8221; the ACB media release said.\u00a0&#8220;From 2008 to 2014, Sridhar served India\u2019s National Cricket Academy as an assistant fielding and spin bowling coach.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is worth mentioning that the Afghanistan Cricket Board has appointed Sridhar as the assistant coach for the one-off Test against New Zealand and the 3-match ODI series against South Africa. The Afghanistan Cricket Board wish Sridhar to fill the role effectively and hopes to have a long-term contract with him in the future.&#8221;    <\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan will be playing their first-ever red-ball cricket match against New Zealand with India&#8217;s Greater Noida Sports Complex Ground playing as a host venue. Afghanistan previously played five ODIs in 2017 and six T20I matches in 2020 in Greater Noida but the venue is set to host its first-ever Test match.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async>\nfunction loadFacebookScript(){\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '529056027274737');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n}\nwindow.addEventListener('load', (event) => {\n\tsetTimeout(function(){\n        loadFacebookScript();\n\t}, 5000);\n});\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatvnews.com\/sports\/cricket\/afghanistan-appoint-r-sridhar-as-assistant-coach-for-new-zealand-and-south-africa-series-2024-08-21-948035\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image Source : GETTY Former India fielding coach Ramakrishnan Sridhar The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) announced the appointment of\u00a0Ramakrishnan Sridhar as an assistant coach to the men&#8217;s senior team on Wednesday. Afghanistan named the former Indian first-class cricketer and national team fielding coach as an assistant coach to\u00a0Jonathan Trott for the upcoming assignments against New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/resize.indiatvnews.com\/en\/centered\/newbucket\/1200_675\/2024\/08\/indiatv-2024-08-21t220630-1724258221.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[605],"tags":[401,62302,5577,96898,38758,96897,460,963,20148,4786,96893,96895,96894,96896,2931,6967,42846,9246],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118772,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118770\/revisions\/118772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}