Mumbai: Pune Warriors India on Thursday announced Angelo Mathews as the captain for IPL Season 6. Angelo Mathews who has been with Pune Warriors India for past two years, is the Captain of Sri Lanka national team for ODI & Tests and brings with him a rich experience of having played International cricket and also captaining an International side.<\/p>\n
Pune Warriors also announced the coaching staff for the team with Allan Donald as the Head Coach. Rob Walters comes on board as Assistant Coach and will be the Fitness Trainer & Fielding Coach of the team. Praveen Amre will continue to be the Assistant Coach.<\/p>\n
Sushanto Roy, Managing Director, Sahara Adventure Sports Limited, said, \u201cWe had many options of International and National cricketers to choose from within the existing squad but we chose Angelo Mathews as our Captain as we are confident of his leadership abilities. All the senior players in the team are happy with the choice and it is a joint decision taken by the senior players and team management. We now have a correct mix of youth and experience to launch an aggressive IPL Season 6 campaign under the leadership of Angelo Mathews.\u201d<\/p>\n
Angelo Mathews on his selection as a captain said, \u201cIt\u2019s a great honour to be offered the captaincy of the Pune Warriors and I am grateful to the team management and franchise owners for the faith shown in me.\u201d He further said, \u201dFor me personally this is a great chance to gain leadership experience working with a multi-national squad and a very exciting opportunity given the enormous talent within our young squad.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mumbai: Pune Warriors India on Thursday announced Angelo Mathews as the captain for IPL Season 6. Angelo Mathews who has been with Pune Warriors India for past two years, is the Captain of Sri Lanka national team for ODI & Tests and brings with him a rich experience of having played International cricket and also captaining an International side.<\/p>\n
Pune Warriors also announced the coaching staff for the team with Allan Donald as the Head Coach. Rob Walters comes on board as Assistant Coach and will be the Fitness Trainer & Fielding Coach of the team. Praveen Amre will continue to be the Assistant Coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-isn-front-stories"],"yoast_head":"\n