Former captain of the Indian cricket team and former BCCI president Sourav Ganguly has made a new beginning in the cricket world. After a long wait, he has now stepped into the role of coaching. Recently, he told the Indian team about the desire to coach. Now Ganguly has been appointed as the head coach of Pretoria Capitals for the upcoming season of South Africa T20 League SA20.

Become the head coach of a team for the first time

This is the first time of Ganguly’s career when he will play a full time head coach with a professional franchise team. Pretoria Capitals announced this big decision through social media posts and welcomed him in the team, saying ‘Prince of Kolkata’. He wrote, “We are happy to announce Sourav Ganguly as their team’s new head coach.”

Trot was the head coach before Ganguly

Earlier, former England batsman Jonathan Trot took over the responsibility of Pretoria Capitals. Ganguly’s appointment was a day after the trot left the post. The team’s performance was very disappointing while being a coach as a coach last season. In such a situation, now hopes are tied to Ganguly that he will give a new direction to the team.

Captain from administrator and now coach

Sourav Ganguly’s cricket career has also been quite excellent. In the era of captaincy, he gave a new identity to the Indian team. Despite being the BCCI president, he took Indian cricket to new heights with many big decisions. Recently he was playing the role of a cricket director of Delhi Capitals in IPL and WPL. Now this new innings matters as a head coach.

Big challenge in front of the team

The next season of SA20 will be played from 26 December 2025 to 25 January 2026. Pretoria Capitals traveled to the final in the first season, but their performance in 2025 was very poor. Now the biggest challenge in front of Ganguly will be to bring the team back into the title race.

Gautam gambhir on cheteshwar pujara retirement: Cheteshwar Pujara, the legendary player of the Indian Test team, has retired from all the formats of cricket. Pujara posted on his social media account on Sunday, August 24 and gave information about retirement from cricket. The news of Cheteshwar Pujara’s retirement surprised everyone. Pujara was out of the team for a long time. On the retirement of Pujara, the Indian team’s head coach Gautam Gambhir has also shared an emotional post.

Gautam Gambhir wrote an emotional post for Pujara

Recalling the cricket career of Cheteshwar Pujara, Gautam Gambhir wrote that ‘he still stood firmly, when the storm came, he continued to fight even when hope was also tarnished’. Along with these lines, Gambhir further wrote that ‘Best wishes Puji’. Gambhir said with these lines that Pujara’s career has been very good for Indian cricket. Pujara has always taken the team out of difficult situations. Pujara said thank you, while recosing Gambhir’s post.

He studs tall when the story raged, he fought when hope was fading. Congratulations Pujji @cheteshwar1 pic.twitter.com/0TJ836uoo9

– Gautam Gambhir (@Gautamgambhir) August 24, 2025

Cheteshwar Pujara’s brilliant career

Cheteshwar Pujara has more than seven thousand runs in Test cricket. Like the legendary Indian cricket player Rahul Dravid, this player was also called the wall of cricket, which always stopped the ball of the bowler with his bat. Pujara has scored 7,195 runs in 176 innings of 103 matches in his Test career at an average of 43.60. Pujara’s highest score in Test cricket was 206 runs. Cheteshwar Pujara played only five matches in ODIs, in which he scored only 51 runs. At the same time, Pujara never played a T20 match in international cricket.

Wearing the Indian Jersey, Singing the Anthem, and Trying My Best Each Time I Steppes on the Field – It’s impossible to put into words what it is true meant. But as they say, all good things must come to an end, and with immense Gratitude I have decided to retire from all forms of… pic.twitter.com/p8yod5tfyt

– Cheteshwar Pujara (@Cheteshwar1) August 24, 2025

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Head Coach Gautam Gambhir Return to India: The five -match Test series between India and England is scheduled to begin on June 20 this month, but Team India has suffered a major setback just before it starts from this series. Gautam Gambhir, the head coach of the Indian team, is returning to Delhi. His mother’s sudden health suddenly deteriorated in Gambhir’s family, due to which the team’s head coach had to return from the tour.

Gautam Gambhir’s mother got a heart-attach

Seema Gambhir, the head coach of Team India and former cricketer Gautam Gambhir, got a heart-attach to Seema Gambhir. According to the information received so far, now Gambhir’s mother’s health is stable, but she is still admitted in ICU. Gambhir’s mother is now out of danger. Gambhir is returning to India as soon as the mother came to know about the heart-attach.

Will Gambhir go again again?

All the staff members along with Team India and head coaches also reached London for the tour of England. The team is currently practicing in England. At the same time, Intra-Squad matches will be played from Friday, June 13, which will be between India and India-A team. According to the information, the head coaches of the team can go to England before June 20.

What will happen if you do not return serious?

Gautam Gambhir is expected to return to England tour on 17 June. But if Gambhir is unable to return to the series under any circumstances, then in such a situation an interim coach is chosen. However, no such information has been revealed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) so far. If Gambhir is unable to go to England on 20 June, then VVS Laxman, director of the National Cricket Academy (NCA), can be made an interim coach.

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