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‘Rival coach ko sign’ - Fans reacts as RCB appoint Andy Flower as Head Coach

Here is how fans react as RCB appoints a new head coach for the next season, Andy Flower, parting ways with Mike Hesson and Sanjay Bangar

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Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB), for the next Indian Premier League (IPL) season, announced former Zimbabwe captain Andy Flower as their head coach. Earlier, Mike Hesson and Sanjay Bangar were coaching the squad, the Bangalore-based side came fifth in the points table and did not qualify for the play-off in the last edition. Flower's last IPL season was with the Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) as their head coach. 

Anyway, the former Zimbabwean cricketer's association with the LSG side was full of controversies, as in one game, the mentor of Lucknow side Gautam Gambhir and their pacer Naveen-ul-Haq were involved in a heated battle with Virat Kohli.  Now that the camp has changed, fans have started mocking Andy as he is now with RCB’s rival team. 

“This should be fun. Go well, Andy” with a side eye emoji, indicating that the rivalry that started last season is here to stay,” LSG tweeted after FLower was appointed as RCB’s head coach. 

Meanwhile, the LSG side also named former Australian player Justin Langer as their head coach. Langer will be looking to take the side to its first championship after reaching the playoffs in two consecutive seasons. It is pertinent to mention that the Lucknow franchise joined the IPL in the 2022 edition. Langer was with Big Bash League (BBL) three times champion side Perth Scorchers in the past. Langer has never coached in the IPL till now; this time it will be his first stint. Australia won the last T20I World Cup under his coaching. 

Andy Flower is the first player from Zimbabwe to be inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame: RCB

"Andy has coached the International and franchise cricket teams for over a decade and in that time has won PSL, The Hundred, ILT20 and T10. He went on to be a hugely successful coach for England, winning home and away Ashes campaigns as well as the T20 World Cup in 2010, taking the England test team to No. 1 in the world. He is also the first player from Zimbabwe to be inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame," RCB said in a media release on Friday.

It will be interesting to see which side excels in the IPL 2024; LSG will be looking to win the championship in their third edition, while RCB wants to win the trophy for the first time after reaching the playoffs on eight occasions in the 16th edition of the league. 

Here is how fans reacted: 

 

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