IPL 2024: Andy Flower joins RCB leaving Lucknow, team sacks Mike Hesson and Sanjay Bangar

The performance of Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 has been nothing special. The team also failed to qualify for the playoffs and finished sixth with 14 points. The team has not won the trophy even once in the last 16 seasons. In such a situation, now the management, taking big action, has sacked the team's head coach Sanjay Bangar and team director Mike Hesson and appointed Andy Flower, former Zimbabwean player and the head coach of Lucknow Super Giants last season, as the new head coach. Is.

Andy Flower was the head coach of the Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) captained by KL Rahul for the last two IPL seasons. In both these seasons, the team performed brilliantly and made it to the playoffs both times. Recently, LSG released him and replaced him with Justin Langer as their coach. In such a situation, RCB has added him to their team without missing the opportunity.

After adding Andy to the team, RCB wrote on social media, ' We welcome ICC Hall of Famer and England's T20 World Cup winning coach Andy Flower as the head coach of the RCB men's team. Andy's experience of coaching IPL and several T20 teams around the world and leading his teams to titles in PSL, ILT20, The Hundred, and Abu Dhabi T10 could help Arseeb win the title. His winning mentality will help RCB move forward.

RCB posted up for Hesson and Bangar as well. In this, he wrote, 'We thank Mike Hesson as Team Director and Sanjay Bangar for their commendable work during their tenure as Head Coach. His professionalism and work ethic has always been looked up to. In the last four years, he has given a platform to many youngsters to learn and become successful. Now that he and this team are leaving, we wish Sanjay and Hesson all the best for their journey ahead.