MUMBAI: Former Sri Lanka coach Trevor Bayliss will replace Dav Whatmore as the new chief coach of the Kolkata Knight Riders. Whatmore stepped down from his position on Monday after the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) gave him charge of their national team.
Bayliss, 49, is now the third coach to be in charge of the Knight Riders after John Buchanan and Whatmore.
Prior to this new assignment, he had worked with the Sri Lankan national team for four years and resigned after their defeat in the World Cup final to India.
"I have followed the IPL and KKR's performance and I am honored to become part of this team which has already built a reputation as a very popular and professional franchise," Bayliss said after the appointment.
Bayliss also has a reputation of sorts in coaching in the Twenty20 format.
It was under him that Sri Lanka also reached the final of the 2009 World Twenty20 in the West Indies.
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