Suresh Raina has been named captain of the new Rajkot IPL Team, which will be called Gujarat Lions, and previous Australia batsman Brad Hodge has been designated head mentor of the team. Keshav Bansal, the proprietor of Intex, the organization that purchased the franchise, made the declarations in Delhi on Tuesday.
The four different players in the Gujarat Lions at present are Brendon McCullum, Dwayne Bravo, Ravindra Jadeja,James Faulkner. They were picked at a player draft in December, when five cricketers who had fit in with the suspended Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals teams were available for determination. The franchise will top off its program at the IPL player auction on February 6. Teams are permitted to have up to 18 Indian players and nine abroad players altogether on their list.
Raina had already played for Super Kings, who were suspended for a long time by the Lodha board of trustees in the aftermath of the spot-fixing discussion. He holds the distinction of failing to have missed an IPL game since the competition started in 2008, and is the league's top scorer with 3699 keeps running at a strike rate of 140 in 132 matches. Raina had as of late made a rebound to the India T20 squad for the voyage through Australia, and he made an unbeaten 49 in Sydney as India cleared the arrangement 3-0.
Hodge was named to his first full-time coaching part by the team, which had additionally been in examinations with previous South African opener Gary Kirsten, who was chopped out by Delhi Daredevils as mentor after two seasons. Hodge, who is right now playing in the Masters Champions League, had initially put his name in the IPL auction's not insignificant rundown. He had recorded his base cost as INR 5,000,000 yet when the last short rundown was distributed by the IPL a weekend ago, he had pulled back his name.
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