Mark Boucher will replace Mahela Jayawardene as the Mumbai Indians’ IPL head coach now that he has been assigned a more global position in the team’s setup.
The favorite to succeed Mahela Jayawardene as the head coach of IPL team Mumbai Indians is South Africa’s, Mark Boucher. Mark Boucher, who resigned from his position as South Africa’s coach after taking the position solely through the T20 World Cup, is the front-runner, according to ESPNcricinfo. In a release to the media on Thursday, the Mumbai Indians organization announced Simon Katich’s appointment as the head coach of their Cape Town franchise. They also said Hashim Amla would help Katich as the team’s batting coach and that Robin Peterson would take on the role of general manager. James Pamment, the fielding coach, will stay in his role.
MI Cape Town is owned by Reliance Industries Limited, the same company that also controls MI Emirates in the UAE’s ILT20 competition and the dominant Mumbai Indians in the IPL. The first SA20 club to reveal its five direct signings in August were Rashid Khan, Liam Livingstone, Sam Curran, Kagiso Rabada, and Dewald Brevis, who also plays for the squad in the Indian Premier League. Before the sale, MI Cape Town was the first SA20 team to do so. The SA20 player auction in Cape Town will take place on September 19.
The club has made changes to the way that coaching is currently organized, and as a result, more support workers were hired. Mahela Jayawardene, who has been the head coach of the Mumbai Indians since 2017, has been replaced by Zaheer Khan, who formerly held the job of director of cricket operations until last season. They both will participate in one of the three teams that the group has.
Supervising the coaching staff at each of the three teams is one of Jayawardene’s duties. For that purpose, he worked with the Mumbai Indians’ ownership group to choose the coaching staff for each of the three clubs; the specifics are expected to be made public this week.
There has been much discussion about who will take over as coach of the IPL squad since Jayawardene started in his new role, and Boucher might be the best choice.
On Monday, Boucher abruptly announced his resignation as head coach of South Africa, effective following South Africa’s participation in the upcoming T20 World Cup in Australia. South Africa had just suffered a 2-1 loss in a Test series played in England. According to CSA CEO Pholetsi Moseki at the time, Boucher intends to “pursue new interests and opportunities.”
Despite having little prior coaching experience in the T20 franchise circuit, Boucher worked as the wicketkeeping coach for the Knight Riders during the 2016 IPL. Both the Knight Riders and the Royal Challengers were his former teams. After that, he became the head coach of the Titans in the domestic South African league before becoming the men’s national team coach of South Africa.
