Former batter Okay Yere Goud on Thursday returned as head coach of the Karnataka males’s cricket workforce for the upcoming home season, the state cricket affiliation introduced.
Goud has changed PV Shashikanth, who coached the workforce for 2 seasons from 2022.
Goud, who was working because the state under-23 aspect’s coach, had earlier guided the senior aspect for 4 seasons from 2018.
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The 52-year-old had marshalled the Karnataka U-23 aspect to this 12 months’s CK Nayudu Trophy title, a maiden incidence within the state workforce’s historical past.
Now, the state bigwigs will hope that Goud, who has the expertise of 134 first-class matches for Karnataka and Railways, can replicate that success with the senior outfit too.
Within the 2023-24 season, Karnataka had reached the semifinals of each Ranji Trophy and Vijay Hazare Trophy.
Former state pacer, Mansur Ali Khan will proceed in his function because the bowling coach.
Former batter J Abhiram, who was the supervisor of the Indian workforce throughout their current white ball tour to Zimbabwe, will stay because the senior males’s choice committee chairman.
Former India batter Karuna Jain has been appointed because the state senior in addition to under-23 ladies’s groups’ head coach.
Karnataka coaches
Senior workforce: Head coach: Okay Yere Goud, Bowling coach: Mansur Ali Khan, Fielding coach: Shabarish P Mohan.
Beneath-23: Head coach: Somashekhar N Shiraguppi, Fielding: Rohit Sabharwal.
Beneath-19: Head coach: KB Pawan, Bowling coach: SL Akshay.
Beneath-16 & Beneath-14: Head coach: Kunal Kapoor, Assistant coach: Aditya B Sagar.