Langer takes over from Flower as Lucknow Super Giants head coach

Lucknow Tremendous Giants have appointed Justin Langer as their new head coach.

Langer changed Andy Flowerwho served as the top coach at Tremendous Giants because the franchise turned 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 prime 4 on each events.

“Lucknow Tremendous Giants are on the journey of constructing an important story within the IPL,” Langer stated in a press release launched by the franchise. “All of us have a job to play in that journey and I’m excited to be part of the staff transferring ahead.”

Expensive Andy,

Right this moment it is farewell, nevertheless it’ll by no means be goodbye since you’ll at all times be certainly one of our personal. Thanks for all the things! pic.twitter.com/EGtaRvYiHj

— Lucknow Tremendous Giants (@LucknowIPL) July 14, 2023

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 a few Massive Bash League titles. He was additionally the top coach when Australia received 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 provide.

He has beforehand labored with Gautam Gambhir, Tremendous 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, become 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 by combined martial arts and gymnastics.

After the stint, Langer acknowledged that he was “impressed with Gambhir’s need” to work on his recreation 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 very good run with the franchise that completed within the playoffs in each their seasons. In 2022, their first season within the IPL, Tremendous Giants completed third, and in IPL 2023, they had been knocked out within the Eliminator.

Probably the most established coaches within the T20 circuit, Flower is at the moment in a consultancy role with Australia on the males’s Ashes.