Ajit Agarkar to join Delhi Capitals as assistant coach

 Previous India quick bowler Ajit Agarkar is set to join Delhi Capitals as an associate mentor. ESPNcricinfo comprehends Agarkar will perform different jobs while going about as one of the delegates to lead trainer Ricky Ponting. Agarkar will likewise be important for the authority bunch containing Ponting, commander Rishabh Pant, batting mentor Praveen Amre and bowling trainer James Hopes.

Agarkar's arrangement follows Capitals not restoring the agreements of Mohammad Kaif and Ajay Ratra, who were both aide mentors for fluctuating periods until the 2021 season. While Kaif served in the job from 2019, Ratra's stretch was restricted to a solitary season (2021).

Agarkar will join Capitals following India's home series against Sri Lanka as he is important for Star Sports' communicating group. The Sri Lanka visit, containing three T20s and two Tests, is booked to end on March 16.

Capitals' task will be Agarkar's first time in any training job. Agarkar, who is 44, resigned in 2013 despite the fact that he last played for India in 2007.

Agarkar was a specialist seamer and gotten 288 wickets in ODIs and 58 in Tests. In his goodbye season in 2012-13, he lead Mumbai without precedent for the Ranji Trophy and assisted them with winning the title. The three-year spell at Daredevils, somewhere in the range of 2011 and 2013, was Agarkar's last time in the IPL. He had additionally played for Kolkata Knight Riders somewhere in the range of 2008 and 2010. Altogether, he has played 62 T20 coordinates and gotten 47 wickets.

Capitals have been among the most predictable and effective groups in the last couple of periods of the IPL. They have been in the end of the season games over the most recent three years, remembering making the last for 2020 when they completed second behind Mumbai Indians. At the 2022 closeout, Capitals spent their tote on a few major names including India bowling allrounder Shardul Thakur, senior Australian player David Warner, Australian allrounder Mitchell Marsh, Indian left-arm seamer Chetan Sakariya, Indian wristspinner Kuldeep Yadav alongside West Indies hitter Rovman Povell. Before the closeout, Capitals had held four players including Pant, Axar Patel, Prithvi Shaw and South African quick bowler Anrich Nortje.