The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) has appointed Milap Mewada because the batting coach of the senior males’s crew for its T20I collection towards Bangladesh, starting on Friday.
A former Baroda wicketkeeper-batter, Mewada has been a seasoned coach within the home circuit and has labored with a number of state groups – together with Jammu and Kashmir and Hyderabad.
He was additionally within the race to develop into the top coach of Baroda this season, however the Baroda Cricket Association named Mukund Parmar for the job after its ‘first choice’ Amol Muzumdar expressed his incapacity to take up the task.
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Sportstar understands Mewada has been working with the Afghanistan crew for just a few weeks and was in Abu Dhabi for a camp with the T20I gamers earlier than becoming a member of the crew in Bangladesh for the three-match collection.
A few days in the past, Bangladesh clinched the three-match ODI collection 2-1 and must be optimistic about faring effectively within the shortest format as effectively. Under head coach Jonathan Trott, Afghanistan has a robust help workers group with Raees Ahmadzai because the assistant coach, Mewada because the batting coach, and Riyan Maron because the fielding coach.
Hamid Hassan, the previous Afghanistan quick bowler, is the bowling coach, whereas Jason Douglas is the power and conditioning coach.
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With Afghanistan set to function within the ODI World Cup in India in October-November, it will be attention-grabbing to see if Mewada is given an extended rope retaining his expertise and data about Indian circumstances in thoughts.
The 48-year-old Mewada performed 11 first-class and 26 List-A matches for Baroda between 1996 and 2005, and later, he labored with a number of younger cricketers as a full-time coach. Under his steerage, Jammu and Kashmir made it to the quarterfinals of the Ranji Trophy within the 2019-20 season, and he performed a key position in recommending Abdul Samad to VVS Laxman for a berth within the Sunrisers Hyderabad crew within the Indian Premier League.
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com