{"id":18923,"date":"2021-03-13T12:31:52","date_gmt":"2021-03-13T07:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=98501"},"modified":"2021-03-13T12:31:52","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T07:01:52","slug":"ipl-2021-damien-wright-joins-punjab-kings-as-a-new-bowling-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2021-damien-wright-joins-punjab-kings-as-a-new-bowling-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2021: Damien Wright joins Punjab Kings as a new bowling coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab Kings have roped in former Australian first-class cricketer Damien Wright as their new bowling coach for the upcoming edition of the IPL which starts from April 9 onwards.<\/p>\n<p>The 45-year-old Wight was also the head coach of the U-19 Bangladesh cricket team and will help support the Punjab Kings squad under the guidance of head coach and Director of Cricket Operations, Anil Kumble.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am delighted to come on board as bowling coach for Punjab Kings. The team looks great and there is tremendous potential in this squad and I look forward to working alongside an amazing support staff team this season of the IPL,\u201d Wright said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wright has come to the right place \u2611\ufe0f\ud83d\ude05<\/p>\n<p>Another Aussie on-board! \ud83d\ude0d<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SaddaPunjab?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SaddaPunjab<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PunjabKings?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PunjabKings<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/W4rSjP25VU\">pic.twitter.com\/W4rSjP25VU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Punjab Kings (@PunjabKingsIPL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PunjabKingsIPL\/status\/1370407624710053889?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 12, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Having worked with Australian Big Bash League sides Hobart Hurricanes and the Melbourne Stars and also served as the bowling coach of the New Zealand team gives Wright an added advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Besides Wright and Kumble, Punjab Kings support staff includes assistant coach Andy Flower, batting coach Wasim Jaffer and fielding coach Jonty Rhodes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe brings in a great deal of experience and will definitely help strengthen our team. We look forward to working with him this edition of the IPL,\u201d Kumble said.<\/p>\n<p>Punjab Kings, led by KL Rahul will start their IPL campaign against Rajasthan Royals in Mumbai on April 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab Kings have roped in former Australian first-class cricketer Damien Wright as their new bowling coach for the upcoming edition\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":39632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[392,1209,1151,683,1177,1462,465],"class_list":["post-18923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl","tag-anil-kumble","tag-big-bash-league","tag-hobart-hurricanes","tag-jonty-rhodes","tag-melbourne-stars","tag-punjab-kings","tag-rajasthan-royals"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}