IPL 2025 Punjab Kings: Punjab Kings has started preparations for IPL 2025. Some time ago, the team made a big change as the head coach and handed over the responsibility to former Australian captain Ricky Ponting. Now Ponting’s coaching team decided to retain many veterans in the support staff. The picture of the players to be retained is not yet clear, but the franchise has retained many veterans in the coaching staff.
According to the report of Cricbuzz, the new head coach of Punjab Kings Ricky Ponting added former Australian all-rounder James Hope to the support staff. Hopes has previously worked with Ponting in Delhi Capitals. It was also mentioned in the report that Delhi offered Hopes to move ahead with the team, but he did not accept the offer and decided to work with Ponting in Punjab.
Punjab retained these veterans in support staff
At the same time, Ponting decided to retain Brad Haddin in the support staff, who has been working as an assistant coach with the franchise for the last few years. Apart from this, Ponting decided to retain former Indian spinner and chief selector Sunil Joshi. Sunil Joshi has been a part of Punjab Kings as spin bowling coach for the last few years. Many more members of the support staff were retained in the team, including strength and conditioning coach Adrien Le Roux and physio Andrew Leaps.
Retaining players will be a big task
After retaining the veterans in the support staff, it will be a big challenge to retain 6 players ahead of Ponting. Now it will be interesting to see which players the team will retain. According to reports, the teams will have to submit the list of retained players to BCCI by October 31.
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