{"id":23044,"date":"2023-02-15T19:13:45","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T13:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=280215"},"modified":"2023-03-04T15:34:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T10:04:04","slug":"ben-sawyer-named-as-the-new-head-coach-for-royal-challengers-bangalore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/wpl\/ben-sawyer-named-as-the-new-head-coach-for-royal-challengers-bangalore\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Sawyer named as the new head coach for Royal Challengers Bangalore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the Indian Women\u2019s Premier league is scheduled to start on the 4th of March, RCB today announced that the former assistant coach of the Australian women\u2019s team, Ben Sawyer, would be the head of Royal Challengers Bangalore.<\/p>\n<p>RCB\u2019s Director of Cricket Mike Hesson said as posted by RCB\u2019s official website, \u201cBen Sawyer has been part of Women\u2019s cricket for over 20 years now, knows the cricketers thoroughly, understands the game, and has been involved in our preparations right from the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cI am delighted to have him, and he is as excited to join us. We also have Malo, who has been part of our men\u2019s system and scouting team. He will bring much value to Vanitha and RX Murali, who have extensive experience working in Karnataka with the women players and are highly sought after. So we have a great team of talented support staff and the coaching team we want to grow and develop too.\u201d Vanita was part of the scouting side, and RX Murali was appointed the team\u2019s batting coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RCB women\u2019s team named Ben Sawyer as their new head coach. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":316,"featured_media":43192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[923,3499],"class_list":["post-23044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wpl","tag-royal-challengers-bengaluru","tag-wpl"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23044","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\/316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}