Andy Flower has been appointed as the top coach for London Spirit‘s males’s aspect, changing Justin Langer. The Spirit completed seventh out of eight in Langer’s first and solely season in cost.
Flower leaves Trent Rockets after a five-year affiliation with the franchise. For the unversed, MCC and the ‘Tech Titans’, which a consortium of excessive net-worth individuals together with the chief executives of Google, Microsoft, YouTube, and Adobe, took over the operations of the Spirit earlier within the week. They plan on working the franchise as a joint-venture.
In the meantime, Flower will reunite with Director of Cricket Mo Bobat on the Spirit. Notably, the duo took Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) to their maiden IPL title in 2025. Bobat expressed that he was excited together with Flower to assist leverage one another’s acumen for the betterment of the Spirit.
“I am delighted that we have been in a position to safe Andy’s companies as our males’s head coach. Andy and I’ve loved a robust working relationship prior to now, and I am trying ahead to constructing one thing particular with him at London Spirit as we enter this new and thrilling part for the franchise,” acknowledged Bobat, as quoted by ESPNcricinfo.
Flower additionally expressed his sentiments on getting one other alternative of working together with Bobat.
“It is an actual privilege to be a part of such an iconic venue and organisation. I am additionally thrilled to be working as soon as once more with Mo, and for the primary time with each MCC and the Tech Titans,” Flower commented.
Talking of how the Spirit have carried out within the match general, they have been champions of the Ladies’s Hundred in 2024. Nevertheless, they’ve persistently underperformed within the males’s division. The boys’s aspect has received solely 12 of their 38 accomplished matches. 5 of these got here in 2022 when Eoin Morgan had led them to the knockout part. That was the one time they reached the knockouts.
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