Jonathan Trott will proceed as Afghanistan head coach in 2025, Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) confirmed on Monday.
The choice is available in after his profitable two-and-a-half yr tenure. In the course of the ODI Cricket World Cup in 2023, Afghanistan secured victories towards formidable opponents together with England and Pakistan.
The nationwide staff made it to the highest eight groups within the occasion, which allowed Afghanistan to qualify for its first-ever ICC Champions Trophy in 2025.
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The staff gained 5 matches on the ICC Males’s T20 World Cup in 2024, triumphing over robust groups like New Zealand, Australia, and Bangladesh. It reached the semifinal of the occasion for the primary time in its historical past.
Trott is at present with the AfghanAtalan, the nation’s A staff, on a tour in Zimbabwe for an all-format collection that includes three T20Is, three ODIs, and two Check matches. He’ll accompany the squad solely in ODIs, whereas he’ll stay unavailable for the T20Is and Check matches attributable to his private commitments.
Hamid Hassan will step up and tackle the function of Head Coach in Trott’s absence, and Nawroz Mangal, who lately helped the AfghanAbdalyan lineup to the Rising Asia Cup glory, will function Assistant Head Coach throughout the collection.