Abdul Rehman replaces Andy Flower as head coach of Multan Sultans
Former Pakistan spinner Abdul Rehman has been promoted as Multan Sultans’ head coach after serving because the workforce’s assistant coach for the final 5 years. He replaces former Zimbabwe wicketkeeper-batter Andy Flower on the helm.
Rehman joined Flower’s workforce in 2018 and underneath their teaching, Multan reached the ultimate of the final three PSL editions and received the league in 2021.
“The past five years have been a great journey for the Multan Sultans and I am privileged to have been part of it,” Flower stated. “When I agreed to join the Sultans, my first request was for Abdul Rehman to be my assistant coach. He is an exceptional coach and a consummate professional, and I am confident the team will benefit with him at the helm.”
A month in the past, Flower, who is among the most embellished coaches within the sport, was appointed head coach of Royal Challengers Bangalore within the IPL for a three-year time period. Till the top of IPL 2023, he was head coach of Lucknow Super Giants and underneath him, the franchise made back-to-back playoffs of their first two years within the competitors.
“It is an honour to be carrying forward Andy Flower’s legacy at the Multan Sultans,” Rehman, who’s at the moment the assistant coach of Pakistan senior males’s facet, stated. “Together with our leadership team, our coaching and support teams, we look forward to taking Multan Sultans forward with passion and innovation.”
Multan have additionally parted methods with Mushtaq Ahmed, who was their spin-bowling coach for the final 4 years. They have additionally introduced on board Nathan Leamon as Multan’s director of technique. Leamon had labored carefully with England throughout all three codecs from 2009 for greater than a decade. He has additionally labored solely with the white-ball groups since 2016, and had hung out with Multan in 2019 and Kolkata Knight Riders within the IPL.