As soon as Ricky Ponting became the head coach, this veteran lost his job from Punjab Kings, he had a special relationship with Virat Kohli

New Delhi: Punjab Kings is in action mode ahead of the mega auction of IPL 2025. On September 18, the franchise appointed Ricky Ponting as its head coach. 8 days after he turned into the pinnacle coach, two veterans have lost their jobs. In fact, the Director of Cricket Development Sanjay Bangar and head Coach Trevor Bayliss have been removed from their posts by the franchise.

In keeping with a Cricinfo report, this decision turned into taken by the board members after a gathering, which included Four co-owners of the team. Bangar has been within the role of batting coach for Team India. The total way through this time he used to help Virat in his batting. Now not best this, he has worked with Virat while being the batting consultant of Royal Challengers Bengaluru in 2021.

Action after the poor performance of the Gujarat Titans:

In spite of the proven fact that the Punjab Kings team has now not been ready to qualify for the playoffs for the last 10 years. But within the last two years, the performance of the team has been very poor while Trevor Bayliss turned into the pinnacle coach. In IPL 2024, the Punjab team turned into at number 9 on the points table and at number 8 within the previous season. Bayliss took over the command of the team as head coach in 2022. Bayliss replaced Anil Kumble, who turned into the pinnacle coach of Punjab Kings from 2020 to 2022.

Alternatively, Sanjay Bangar turned into the pinnacle coach of Punjab Kings from 2014 to 2016. After this, in 2021, he turned into the batting consultant of Royal Challengers Bangalore. Then RCB promoted him as head coach. At the identical time, in 2023, he again turned to Punjab Kings where he turned into within the role of Director of Cricket. Even at some point of Bangar’s tenure, Punjab’s performance turned into now not superb.

7 coaches in 10 years:

Preity Zinta’s team last qualified for the IPL playoffs in 2014. Alternatively, they've now not won the trophy even once. At some stage in the last 10 years, the franchise has changed 7 coaches on the look for a winning formula for the team and the trophy. Sanjay Bangar turned into the pinnacle coach of the team from 2014 to 2016. In 2017, the team turned to legendary batsman Virender Sehwag.

In 2018, the coach turned into changed again and this time Brad Hodge turned into given the responsibility. In 2019, Mike Hesson turned into the pinnacle coach. Anil Kumble turned into the pinnacle coach from 2020 to 2022, Trevor Bayliss turned into the pinnacle coach for the 2023 and 2024 seasons and now Ricky Ponting has got the responsibility. In spite of changing so many coaches, the Punjab Kings have now not been ready to attain success.