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Royal Challengers Bangalore, who have failed to win the IPL so far, have already started preparations for the coming season, tell that they have changed their coaching staff. RCB has appointed former Zimbabwe cricket and former England coach Andy Flower as the new head coach of the team. Let us tell you that with this, RCB has also decided not to extend the tenure of team director Mike Hesson and head coach Sanjay Bangar and has thanked both of them. The franchisee shared this information on Friday. Flower, however, will not be seen working in IPL for the first time. Earlier he coached in IPL. Andy Flower has worked with Lucknow Supergiants before Bengaluru. Lucknow has only been in the IPL for 2 years and Flower has played a vital role in building this team. The Lucknow team made it to the playoffs twice in the years 2022 and 2023 during Flower's tenure. And before this Flower has worked with Punjab Kings.
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* England made world champion:
Let us tell you that England is the team that has won two T20 World Cups, this team won its first T20 World Cup in 2010 under the captaincy of Collingwood and at that time Flower was the head coach of the team. This was England's first World Cup win in any format. When he left the England team, he said that the T20 World Cup win with the team in 2010 was one of the best moments spent with the England team. It was during his time as coach that England beat Australia 3–1 at home in the 2010–11 Ashes series. And after that, India was also defeated in the Test series.
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* Now RCB will be made champion:
Please tell that the RCB team has reached the final of the IPL 3 times but has not been able to become the winner even once. In such a situation, now Andy Flower will try to end the title drought of RCB after becoming the head coach. Flower has already worked in IPL. Apart from this, he has worked as a coach in other franchise leagues around the world. Let us tell you that in the Caribbean Premier League in the year 2020, he was with St. Lucia Zouks. Apart from this, he was with Multan-Sultans in Pakistan Super League in 2021 and came to Lucknow from here. After this, in 2023, he was the coach of the Gulf Giants in the ILT20 League.