Badree to coach in the IPL

Windies leg-spin­ner Samuel Badree is set to be­come the first West In­di­an to coach in the lu­cra­tive In­di­an Pre­mier League (IPL).

Badree a lev­el III coach has been em­ployed as the spin bowl­ing coach for the Del­hi Cap­i­tals for the up­com­ing IPL. The IPL gets go­ing on March 23 and Del­hi Cap­i­tals will be­gin their bid for ho­n­ours on March 24 against the pop­u­lar Mum­bai In­di­ans.

Badree will be work­ing with the for­mer Aus­tralian Test play­er Ricky Ponting who is the head coach at the fran­chise. Badree has played in five CPLs start­ing in 2013. He first played for the Ra­jasthan Roy­als and then moved to Chan­nai where he played for two years. He al­so played for the Roy­al Chal­lengers Ban­ga­lore for two sea­sons

The Bar­rack­pore man made it clear that he has not re­tired from in­ter­na­tion­al crick­et. "I have not re­tired from in­ter­na­tion­al crick­et. I have coached be­fore at the Aus­tralian Acad­e­my so this is my sec­ond stint as coach and I am re­al­ly look­ing for­ward to it.

"I am very proud of be­ing the first West In­di­an to coach at the IPL and al­so to be a spin­ner and get a job as a spin bowl­ing coach in In­dia is al­so big to me.

"I in­tend to do the best that I can do to lift the fran­chise and I am keen to see how this tran­si­tion from play­er to coach works out. I have nev­er coached at a high lev­el here in the Caribbean so I am look­ing for­ward to learn­ing a lot and con­tribut­ing a lot to the Del­hi set up.

Badree has played 197 T20 match­es and has tak­en 187 wick­ets at an av­er­age of 22.16 and an econ­o­my rate of 6.02.