Lance Klusener Has Been Appointed As The Assistant Coach By LSG
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Former South Africa all-rounder Lance Klusener has joined the Lucknow SuperGiants as an assistant coach for the 2024 Indian Premier League. Klusener also oversees the Super Giants, a SA20 affiliate based in Durban. Klusener will be in the Super Giants’ back room with head coach Justin Langer and assistant coach S Sriram.
After helping former South Africa captain Shaun Pollock with the Mumbai Indians in the IPL’s early years, Klusener will be coaching in the league for the second time.
The Guyana Amazon Warriors won their first CPL championship last year under Klusener’s leadership. Klusener will play in the Indian Premier League alongside West Indies phenom Shamar Joseph, with whom he previously collaborated at Amazon Warriors in the Champions League. Joseph became a member of Super Giants, taking over for Mark Wood.
𝘿𝙪𝙧𝙗𝙖𝙣 𝙨𝙚 𝙖𝙖𝙮𝙖 𝙝𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙧𝙖 𝙙𝙤𝙨𝙩 💙🔥
— Lucknow Super Giants (@LucknowIPL) March 1, 2024
Lance Klusener joins our coaching staff for the season 🤩 pic.twitter.com/0GWVNFEEnV
Klusener has held positions as South Africa’s and Zimbabwe’s batting coach as well as head coach of Afghanistan. Additionally, he has collaborated with Tripura on internal Indian projects.
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From 1996 to 2004, Klusener participated in 171 ODIs and 49 Test matches for South Africa. On March 24, the Super Giants will play the Rajasthan Royals in Jaipur to begin their IPL 2024 season.
Squad of Lucknow Super Gaints
Quinton de Kock (SA), KL Rahul, Nicolas Pooran (WI),Devdutt Padikkal, Ayush Badoni, Ashton Turner (AUS) Deepak Hooda, K. Gowtham, Krunal Pandya, Kyle Mayers (WI), Marcus Stoinis (AUS), Prerak Mankad, Yudhvir Singh Charak, David Willey (ENG), Arshin Kulkarni, Md. Arshad Khan, Mark Wood (ENG), Mayank Yadav,Mohsin Khan, Ravi Bishnoi, Yash Thakur, Amit Mishra, Naveen-ul-Haq (AFG), Shivam Mavi, Manimaran Siddarth.
History
The Indian Premier League saw the addition of Lucknow SuperGiants in 2022, bringing the total number of clubs to ten. Gujarat Titans made their debut in the same year.
Sanjiv Goenka of the RPSG group owns the Lucknow SuperGiants, whose home field is the BRS ABV Ekana Cricket Stadium in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. Former owners of the briefly active Rising Pune Supergiant franchise were the RPSG group.
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