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Bangar steps down as Kings XI coach
- Updated: December 24, 2016
India’s batting coach Sanjay Bangar has stepped down as coach of the Kings XI Punjab franchise in the IPL. “I submitted my resignation in the last week of November. They [the franchise] came back to me around the second week of December,” Bangar told ESPNcricinfo. “I was totally engrossed in the [England] series and that is the reason why I sort of waited till the end of the series.”
In 2014, Bangar, 44, was initially appointed assistant coach before being promoted to head coach. The results were instant as Kings XI made the final of the IPL for the first time. However, the team’s performance nosedived just as swiftly as they finished at the bottom of the table in the next two editions.
Bangar did not elaborate on whether the alleged misunderstandings with one of the team’s co-owners had played a part in his resignation. “It is a professional set-up. The IPL is a model which is …
