IPL 2024 / This former Kiwi player can handle the responsibility of SRH's new bowling coach

There are less than 20 days left for the start of the 17th season of the Indian Premier League (IPL), so all the teams have started their preparations. This time many big changes will be seen in the Sunrisers Hyderabad team, which was at the bottom in the points table last season, in which a new bowling coach can also be seen in the coaching staff of one team. Dale Steyn, who was serving as the bowling coach for the

Vikrant Shekhawat : Mar 03, 2024, 07:00 AM

IPL 2024: There are less than 20 days left for the start of the 17th season of the Indian Premier League (IPL), so all the teams have started their preparations. This time many big changes will be seen in the Sunrisers Hyderabad team, which was at the bottom in the points table last season, in which a new bowling coach can also be seen in the coaching staff of one team. Dale Steyn, who was serving as the bowling coach for the Sunrisers Hyderabad team last season, has asked for a break from the franchise for the upcoming season. In such a situation, a new bowling coach can be appointed soon and the name of former New Zealand team player James Franklin is the most prominent in this. Moving forward.

James Franklin's name may be announced soon

In the 2011 and 2012 IPL seasons, former New Zealand team player James Franklin played for Mumbai Indians. According to the news of ESPN Cricinfo, former Kiwi team all-rounder James Franklin can be appointed by Sunrisers Hyderabad as their new bowling coach for the upcoming season in place of Dale Steyn. Hyderabad has also made several major changes in its coaching staff after the team's shameful performance last season, in which it has appointed Daniel Vettori as the head coach. After saying goodbye to cricket, Franklin entered the world of coaching, in which he is currently playing the role of assistant coach for Islamabad United team in the current season of Pakistan Super League. Apart from this, he is also the assistant coach for Durham team in the county. Has also fulfilled the responsibility of head coach.

James Franklin's international career was like this

If we look at the international career of James Franklin, the former all-rounder player of the New Zealand team, he has played 31 Tests, 110 ODIs and 38 T20 Internationals, in which he has taken 82 wickets along with scoring 808 runs in Tests, while he has taken 1270 wickets in ODIs. Scored 81 wickets while scoring 463 runs in T20 and took 20 wickets. James Franklin was not able to show much success in the IPL in which he got a chance to play only 20 matches and during this he scored 327 runs which included a half-century innings, while he managed to take only 9 wickets with the ball.