Mumbai: Australian batting great Ricky
Ponting was today appointed coach of the Delhi Daredevils
franchise for the upcoming Indian Premier League.
The announcement was made by Delhi Daredevils CEO Hemant
Dua as he welcomed the three-time World Cup winner.
Ponting takes over the reins at DD from former India
captain Rahul Dravid, who had stepped down after the previous
season owing to BCCI's conflict-of-interest regulations.
Dravid chose to coach India A and India Under-19 teams
over the IPL franchise.
"Ricky Ponting has been appointed as head coach. We will
have a new coach and a new team with the idea of having
continuity. We have retained two youngsters and the whole team
will be built around them. Chris Morris is a top all rounder,"
Daredevils CEO Hemant Dua said.
The 43-year-old has earlier coached Mumbai Indians for
two seasons in 2015 (when they won the title) and 2016.
Apart from coaching role, Ponting has played in the
cash-rich T20 tournament for Kolkata Knight Riders and Mumbai
Indians.
Ponting will be assisting the current head coach Darren
Lehman in Australia's T20 tri-series against England and New
Zealand in February.
The legendary batsman played 168 Tests, scoring 13378
runs at 51.85.
In ODIs, he tallied 375 appearances in which he scored
13704 runs at 42.03 apart from 401 runs in 17 T20Is.
Delhi Daredevils retained Rishabh Pant, Shreyas Iyer and
Chris Morris ahead of the IPL auctions to be held on January
27-28.
PTI
