Recently retired Indian legend Jhulan Goswami has been assigned the twin function of staff mentor and bowling coach by Mumbai Indians for the upcoming Women’s Premier League (WPL) season.
Former England girls’s staff captain and second-highest run-scorer in girls’s ODIs and Tests Charlotte Edwards has been appointed as the pinnacle coach of the franchise for the inaugural version in March.
Former India all-rounder Devika Palshikar would be the batting coach, whereas Trupti Chandgadkar Bhattacharya would be the staff supervisor.
Padma Shri Jhulan, who retired final yr after the sequence towards England, has over 350 worldwide wickets to her title in a profession spanning over twenty years.
She is the very best wicket-taker in Women’s ODIs and likewise has the excellence of being the very best wicket-taker within the historical past of the Women’s ODI World Cup. Jhulan reached No. 1 within the ICC Women’s ODI Bowling Rankings in January 2016 and has been mentoring the Bengal girls’s staff post-retirement.
Edwards additionally had a cricket profession spanning twenty years and led the England staff to ODI and T20I World Cup titles. Post retirement, the 43-year-old has been teaching groups in England and Australia and is an ICC ‘Hall of Famer’.
Devika, a former right-handed batsman and leg-spinner, was India’s assistant coach between 2014 and 2016. She was additionally related to the Bangladesh staff as an assistant coach, successful the 2018 Asian Cup with them.
Mumbai Indians, probably the most profitable staff of IPL, lately purchased the Mumbai franchise in WPL for Rs 912.99 crore.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
