The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB)just lately confirmed ex-Windies captain Dwayne Bravo’s appointment as a bowling guide for the June 1-29 T20 World Cup, which is being co hosted by the West Indies and the US.
“The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) proclaims the appointment of former West Indian nice and T20 World Cup winner Dwayne Bravo because the bowling guide of the Afghanistan nationwide workforce for the T20 World Cup 2024,” states a ACB launch.
Bravo is ready to affix the workforce in the course of the preparation camp forward of the marquee occasion within the Caribbean.”
The Afghans are in St. Kitts and Nevis for a 10-day coaching camp within the buildup to the World Cup.
Bravo confirmed his new appointment by way of Instagram saying, “Thanks (to the Afghanistan Cricket Board) for trusting me and giving me the chance to work with such a really gifted group of gamers. I look ahead to this new problem and may’t wait to get began.” Bravo performed alongside Badree within the West Indies’ runs to the 2012 and 2016 T20 World Cup titles.
Led by ace leg-spinner Rashid Khan, the Afghanistanis are in group C alongside New Zealand, Papua New Guinea (PNG), Uganda and West Indies.
Former Weat Indies spinner and two-time Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) males’s Twenty/20 World Cup winner Samuel Badree stated, “I feel Dwayne’s appointment by the Afghanistan workforce is sort of a strategic transfer by them, understanding the expertise Dwayne has in TT cricket. He has essentially the most wickets on this format within the historical past of the sport. And naturally, he understands the situations fairly properly.”
He added that Bravo’s appointment together with PNG’s hiring of former West Indies coach Phil Simmons as a specialist coach forward of the World Cup, speaks to the homework being completed by the various groups and the within data they’re making an attempt to collect.
Simmons was the coach of the Windies workforce, which lifted a second T20 World Cup crown in 2016.
Final December, reigning T20 World Cup champions England employed former West Indies captain Kieron Pollard, as an assistant coach for the upcoming World Cup. England are in group B alongside Australia, Namibia, Oman and Scotland.
The 40-year-old Bravo performed 91 T20 matches for the Windies and is taken into account as one of many pioneers of the T20 sport. He performed 295 matches in complete for the West Indies. Bravo took 363 worldwide wickets throughout all codecs, with 78 of these coming within the T20 format, totalling his variety of T20 wickets to 625 in a 19-year span.
Bravo at the moment serves because the bowling coach for his former Indian Premier League workforce Chennai Tremendous Kings.
Afghanistan will start their marketing campaign towards the Uganda in Guyana on June 3. They’ll then play the Kiwis on June 7 and PNG on June 13, earlier than bringing an finish to the match’s preliminary spherical towards Sammy’s Windies in St. Lucia on June 17.
