IPL 2019 | Samuel Badree brought in as spin coach for Delhi Capitals

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Windies legspinner Samuel Badree has been roped in as the spin coach for the Delhi Capitals squad for the ongoing 2019 season of the Indian Premier League. Badree, a level three coach, is set to be­come the first West In­di­an cricketer to be appointed as a coach in the cash-rich IPL.

Delhi Capitals showed great promise in their opening match at the Wankhede Stadium to pull off a memorable win against Rohit Sharma-led Mumbai Indians. However, the Shreyas-Iyer captained Capitals’ fell to a disappointing loss on home turf against defending champions Chennai Super Kings.

The game could have gone either way that night but the home team’s spinners failed to pick important wickets at crucial intervals during the match at the Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium earlier this week.

Badree will be work­ing with for­mer Aus­tralian Test play­er Ricky Ponting, who is the head coach at the fran­chise. Badree has played in five IPL seasons dating back to 2013. The Windies leg spinner first played for Ra­jasthan Roy­als and then moved to Chen­nai where he played for two years. Badree al­so represented Roy­al Chal­lengers Ban­ga­lore for two sea­sons towards the end of his IPL career - in 2016 and 2017.

"I have not re­tired from in­ter­na­tion­al crick­et. I have coached be­fore at the Aus­tralian Acad­e­my so this is my sec­ond stint as coach and I am re­al­ly look­ing for­ward to it. I am very proud of be­ing the first West In­di­an to coach at the IPL and al­so to be a spin­ner and get a job as a spin bowl­ing coach in In­dia is al­so big to me.

"I in­tend to do the best that I can do to lift the fran­chise and I am keen to see how this tran­si­tion from play­er to coach works out. I have nev­er coached at a high lev­el here in the Caribbean so I am look­ing for­ward to learn­ing a lot and con­tribut­ing a lot to the Del­hi set up," Badree told Trinidad & Tobago Trident.

Badree has played a total of 197 T20 match­es across all leagues and has tak­en 187 wick­ets at an av­er­age of 22.16 and an econ­o­my rate of 6.02. Badree will coach as many as three wrist spinners in the Delhi squad - Amit Mishra, Sandeep Lamichhane and Rahul Tewatia.  He will join Ricky Ponting (head coach), Mohammad Kaif (batting coach), Pravin Amre (talent scouts) and James Hopes (fast bowling coach) in the support staff. 

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