Johnny Rhodes who was sitting along head coach Anil Kumble and co-owners at the IPL auction table last week has taken up the role of batting and fielding coach of Punjab Kings. It was after the departure of former Batting coach, Wasim Jaffer.
Damien Wright will continue to coach fast bowlers while Kumble manages spinners. Andy Flower, who was the assistant coach last season, has taken over as head coach at Lucknow SuperGiants.
After a “successful” auction in which they picked up the likes of Shikhar Dhawan, Shahrukh, Liam Livingstone, Jonny Bairstow, Odean Smith, Kagiso Rabada and India U-19 star Raj Bawa, Punjab Kings are confident of going all the way.
Only Mayank Agarwal and Arshdeep Singh were retained by Punjab for the auction, which had the largest purse.
Rhodes was considered one of the best fielders of all time, but he also scored more than 8000 runs for South Africa. Rhodes scored 5935 runs in 245 ODIs and 2532 runs in 52 Tests.
