Kolkat Knight Riders (KKR) added former West Indies coach to their coaching headquarters ahead of the Indian Premier League (IPL 2025), which should start on March 22. On Saturday, March 8, defenders were named by the defenders Ottis Gibson as their assistant coach for the upcoming season.
Gibson brings valuable experience to knight riders. He trained West India from 2010 to 2014 and helped the team win the T20 World Cup 2012. The 55-year-old will be operated by the main coach of Chandrakant Pandit, mentor Dwayne Bravo, bowling coach Bharat Arun and Carl Carl Crowe coach.
Kolkat Knight Riders announce Ottis Gibson as an auxiliary trainer for the IPL 2025
Kolkat Knight Riders officially announced the appointment of Ottis Gibson as their new assistant coach. KKR headed to their official social networking account to welcome Gibson to their coaching staff.
“Welcoming our auxiliary coach, Ottis Gibson. Ottis joins our unit of powerful auxiliary staff, consisting of mentor Dwayne Bravo, the main coach of Chandrakant Pandit, the Bharat Arun bowling coach, the Carl Crowe and others spying coach, “Kkr tweeted.
Ottis Gibson was also an English bowling coach in two separate states (2007-2010 and 2015-2017). He was also the main coach of South Africa (2017-2019) and trained in various T20 franchises. Gibson represented Western India in 15 Odis two trials between 1995 and 1999.
Gibson also had short points with Bangladesh national team and on the side of Yorkshire district, except for the mentoring of several franchises T20.
Champion Defense Name Ajinkya Rahane as skipper for IPL 2025 season
The veterans champions will have a renewed coaching staff for the upcoming IPL season. Gautam Gambhir, who was a mentor of Knight Riders in 2024, became the main coach Team India. Auxiliary coaches Abhishek Nayar and Ryan Ten Dongchate also joined Gambhira in coaching installation.
KKR will also have a new captain for the IPL 2025 season. Ajinkya Rahane was appointed skipper and Venkatesh Iyer was appointed his replacement. Rahane was led by now directly Easter Supergiants Full and Rajasthan Royals. However, the 36-year-old has not been captain of the IPL side since 2019.
Champion defense that would start the IPL 2025 campaign at the opening of the season
Shreyas Iyer is a KKR captain last year to their third IPL title. However, the franchise did not keep it and did not buy it during a mega auction in December.
KKR has retained most of its main players from the winning team, including Rinko Singh, Varun Chakravarthy, Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Harshit Wounds and Ramandeep Singh. At the auction they bought a Venkatesh Iyer for 23.75 and signed Ajinkya Rahana at his basic price of 1.5 crowns.
The franchise based in Calcutta will begin the IPL 2025 campaign with the season opener against the Royal Challengers Bengalur (RCB) on March 2nd in Eden Gardens. KKR The goal will defend your title in the tournament.
