IPL 2025: Delhi Capitals Appoint Matthew Mott As Assistant Coach

Former England white-ball coach Matthew Mott was on Tuesday appointed assistant coach of IPL franchise Delhi Capitals for the upcoming season.

The 51-year-old Mott will help former India cricketer Hemang Badani, who was named head coach in October final yr. The Australian joins director of cricket Venugopal Rao and bowling coach Munaf Patel within the Delhi Capitals’ assist employees.

Mott, following a particularly profitable stint with the Australian girls’s cricket group — he guided them to 2 T20 World Cups, one ODI World Cup and 4 Ashes collection wins — over seven years, turned the England males’s group white-ball coach in 2022.

The previous first-class cricketer, with greater than 3,500 runs below his belt in 66 video games, stepped down as England coach in July final yr after guiding them to the T20 World Cup title in Australia in 2022.

Mott had additionally served as assistant coach of Kolkata Knight Riders throughout the first two seasons of IPL.

Delhi Capitals, who’re nonetheless in search of their maiden IPL title, have made main adjustments to their teaching employees forward of the brand new season. They introduced in former India participant Badani as head coach rather than legendary Australian cricketer Ricky Ponting, whereas additionally changing Australia’s James Hopes with ex-India pacer and member of the 2011 World Cup-winning squad, Munaf, as their bowling coach.

Delhi Capitals will open their IPL marketing campaign in opposition to Lucknow Tremendous Giants (LSG) in Visakhapatnam on March 24.