Former South Africa speedster Dale Steyn is likely to join as a coach of Sunrisers Hyderabad in the upcoming season. as SRH Head Coach Trevor Bayliss and Batting coach Brad Haddin have stepped down from their role ahead of upcoming season and also the franchise performance in last edition was below par as they failed to qualify for last four of the marquee event since 2016 onwards also the franchise will not have mentor VVS Laxman at the helm as the ace cricketer turned expert has joined National Cricket Acadmey in Bengaluru.
Meanwhile Steyn, veteran of 95 IPL matches has clinched 97 wickets has been part of the league since its inception have represented teams like Gujarat Lions, Royal Challengers Bangalore in the past recently he announced his retirement from International cricket where he represented Proteas in 292 matches.
In his career he picked 439 wickets in 93 Tests at an average of 22.95 where he scalped 196 and 64 wickets in 125 ODIs and 47 T20Is respectively.
According to reports in different media outlets, He is still in talks with franchise owners and if he comes on board it will help budding fast bowlers like Umraan Malik who have immense pace and needs grooming from someone who brought shivers to many top class batter when he was in his prime.
The upcoming edition of IPL will be bigger and better with the addition of two new teams in the form of Lucknow and Ahmedabad for whopping amount of INR 12,000 crores.
IPL is certainly attracting the viewership of fans all across the globe and the fact to support this approach will be Manchester United major stakeholders in the form of Glazer’s family wanted a team in IPL 2022 season but couldn’t get that as their amount was less in comparison to amount proposed by owners from Lucknow and Ahmedabad.
