Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise, Royal Challengers Bangalore has roped in ICC Hall of Famer and T20 World Cup-winning coach Andy Flower as the Head Coach of the team.
Taking to Twitter, RCB stated, “Andy’s experience of coaching IPL & T20 teams around the world and leading his teams to titles at the PSL, ILT20, The Hundred and Abu Dhabi T10 will help in developing a championship-winning mindset and take RCB’s #PlayBold philosophy forward.”
Andy Flower takes over as head coach of RCB as the franchise looks to overturn a disappointing IPL 2023, where they failed to make the playoffs for the first time in four seasons.
According to ESPNcricinfo, the exact period of the contract has not been made public.
At RCB, he will reunite with Faf du Plessis, the captain, who he worked with earlier during his time with St Lucia Kings in the CPL.
Flower takes over from Mike Hesson and Sanjay Bangar, the franchise’s director of cricket and head coach respectively till last season. (NewsWire)