Sourav Ganguly to lead KKR, Whatmore appointed coach

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Former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly has been made the captain of the Kolkatta Knight Riders team, replacing Kiwi Brendon McCullum. The team will be coached by Dave Whatmore, who has expressed confidence in building a strong KKR team.

CJ: Dipen Nandani

Fri, Nov 06, 2009 18:03:07 IST

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SOURAV GANGULY, the former Indian captain has been named as the captain of the Kolkatta Knight Riders (KKR) team for the next year's Indian Premier League, replacing New Zealand's Brendon McCullum. Dave Whatmore will be the coach for the KKR, who had recently quit from the post of director of operations.

The KKR management had held many meetings over the last few weeks to discuss the plan as to how to move forward. It is believed that Dada, played a very important role in the entire vision and decision making process for the season ahead. Whatmore said that he was very optimistic about the season ahead and had utmost faith in Ganguly, the team and the management. He added that he looked forward to a successful stint and will be closely working with the team to continue building the KKR team into a successful franchisee both on and off field.

Ganguly after being announced as the captain said that KKR was looking forward to an exciting and successful season ahead with the new appointments and strageties in place. He was quite excited at the prospect of working with Whatmore and the entire team in addition to playing at the home grounds once again.

Whatmore will have Vijay Dahiya as his assistant and Wasim Akram as mentor. Andrew Leipus and Adrain le Roux will play the role of physiotherapist and team's trainer respectively.

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	At last better sense prevailed and the team management has taken very right decision by clearing all the mess created by the Buchanana. If the management had pulled the string at right time and controled the former coach's four captain's theory, more than four foreign player playing in the eleven and sacking the captaincy of a player who had record of becoming best captain of India ever so far, the KKR would not have had seen the bad day in the last addition of game. Now coach must find the best talents aavailable in Orissa, Bengal. Assam, Jharkhand, Bihar and North eastates and take the team to new height
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