Afghanistan prolong head coach Jonathan Trott’s contract

The ACB, in a press release, acknowledged Jonathan Trott’s success as the pinnacle coach and thus introduced a contract extension for a full yr.

“Afghanistan Cricket Board confirms the extension of the contract with Mr. Jonathon Trott, the Nationwide Staff’s Head Coach, for the yr 2024,” stated the Afghan cricketing physique.

“The choice is available in after his profitable 18-month tenure, throughout which he made important contributions to the crew’s progress and growth.”

Notably, the ACB appointed the South-African Born former English cricketer, because the Nationwide Staff’s Head Coach in July 2022.

Beneath his management, the crew achieved exceptional success and secured a number of victories, together with the crew’s spectacular efficiency on the ACC T20 Males’s Asia Cup 2022, its maiden worldwide win and a T20I collection victory towards Pakistan, a maiden ODI collection win over Bangladesh and a profitable marketing campaign on the ICC Males’s Cricket World Cup 2023.

Jonathan Trott has performed 52 take a look at matches for England from 2009-2015, scoring 3835 runs at 44.08 with 9 centuries and 19 half-centuries to his identify with the perfect of 226 in an inning.

He has additionally represented England in 68 ODIs throughout the interval, having scored 2838 runs at 51.25 with 4 tons of and 22 half-centuries to his identify within the format.

Jonathon Trott expressed his pleasure on the extension of his contract and acknowledged that he’s wanting ahead to spending extra time with the squad and constructing on performances of the just lately held ICC Males’s Cricket World Cup 2023.

It’s price mentioning right here that Afghanistan are on a short tour to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to play a three-match T20I collection.

The three-match collection between Afghanistan and UAE is levelled at 1-1 with the third and last fixture to be performed on Tuesday.