Langer takes over from Flower as Lucknow Super Giants head coach
Lucknow Super Giants have appointed Justin Langer as their new head coach.
Langer changed Andy Flower, who served as the top coach at Super Giants because the franchise grew to become part of the IPL in 2022. LSG didn’t renew Flower’s contract after the tip of the two-year time period, throughout which they completed within the high 4 on each events.
“Lucknow Super Giants are on the journey of building a great story in the IPL,” Langer mentioned in an announcement launched by the franchise. “We all have a role to play in that journey and I am excited to be a part of the team moving forward.”
Langer has by no means held a training function within the IPL however has a wealthy pedigree as a coach in T20 cricket, having helmed Perth Scorchers to 3 Big Bash League titles. He was additionally the top coach when Australia gained the T20 World Cup for the primary time in 2021 within the UAE. He resigned as Australia’s head coach early in 2022 after rejecting a short-term extension supply.
He has beforehand labored with Gautam Gambhir, Super Giants’ director of cricket, when Gambhir was attempting to resurrect his worldwide profession in 2015. An off-the-cuff chat on the sidelines of the now-defunct Champions League T20 in 2014, the place Gambhir was captaining Kolkata Knight Riders and Langer teaching Scorchers, became a one-on-one mentorship a 12 months later. Gambhir spent a fortnight in Perth then to work on some technical points and psychological toughness via blended martial arts and gymnastics.
After the stint, Langer said that he was “impressed with Gambhir’s desire” to work on his sport at that stage in his profession, after having led Knight Riders to the IPL title twice other than having performed a key function in two world titles with India – the 2007 T20 World Cup and the 2011 ODI World Cup.
Flower, who labored intently with Gambhir, had a great run with the franchise that completed within the playoffs in each their seasons. In 2022, their first season within the IPL, Super Giants completed third, and in IPL 2023, they had been knocked out within the Eliminator.
One of essentially the most established coaches within the T20 circuit, Flower is at present in a consultancy role with Australia on the males’s Ashes.