{"id":15915,"date":"2026-06-02T19:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T14:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/former-leg-spinner-joins-gautam-gambhirs-support-staff-as-team-indias-spin-bowling-coach-cricket-news\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T19:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T14:29:11","slug":"former-leg-spinner-joins-gautam-gambhirs-support-staff-as-team-indias-spin-bowling-coach-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/former-leg-spinner-joins-gautam-gambhirs-support-staff-as-team-indias-spin-bowling-coach-cricket-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Former leg-spinner joins Gautam Gambhir&#8217;s support staff as Team India&#8217;s spin-bowling coach | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-articlebody=\"1\"><video-embed value=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"ihgno clearfix  \">\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-131465097,imgsize-25814,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/ijm-81.jpg\" alt=\"Former leg-spinner joins Gautam Gambhir's support staff as Team India's spin-bowling coach\" title=\"Gautam Gambhir\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Former India leg-spinner <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/sairaj-bahutule\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">Sairaj Bahutule<\/a> was appointed as the spin-bowling coach of the Indian men&#8217;s cricket team on Tuesday, ahead of the one-off Test against Afghanistan in New Chandigarh, which will be played from June 6 to 10.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>&#8220;The Board of Control for Cricket in India (<a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/bcci\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">BCCI<\/a>) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr Sairaj Bahutule as the Spin Bowling Coach of the Indian Cricket Team (Senior Men),&#8221; the BCCI said in a media release.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/>Bahutule joins the national setup after working with Punjab Kings in IPL 2026, where he served as the franchise&#8217;s spin-bowling coach. He will now be responsible for overseeing India&#8217;s spin-bowling group across formats.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"14\"\/>The 53-year-old brings extensive coaching experience at both domestic and franchise level. He was the spin-bowling consultant for the Indian team during the home Test series against Australia in 2022-23 under then head coach Rahul Dravid. He also worked as spin-bowling coach at the BCCI&#8217;s National Cricket Academy in Bengaluru from 2021 to 2024.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/>Bahutule has previously served as Rajasthan Royals&#8217; spin-bowling coach from 2018 to 2021 and again in 2025. He has also been head coach of several domestic teams, including Bengal, Vidarbha, Kerala and Gujarat.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"20\"\/>As a player, Bahutule represented India in two Tests and eight ODIs. He also enjoyed a long domestic career, scoring 6,176 runs and taking 630 wickets in first-class cricket.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"22\"\/>The Indian coaching staff currently includes batting coach Sitanshu Kotak, fast-bowling coach Morne Morkel, fielding coach T Dilip and assistant coach Ryan ten Doeschate. Bahutule will now take charge of the spin-bowling coach&#8217;s role.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"24\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/cricket\/news\/former-leg-spinner-joins-gautam-gambhirs-support-staff-as-team-indias-spin-bowling-coach\/articleshow\/131465006.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former India leg-spinner Sairaj Bahutule was appointed as the spin-bowling coach of the Indian men&#8217;s cricket team on Tuesday, ahead of the one-off Test against Afghanistan in New Chandigarh, which will be played from June 6 to 10.&#8220;The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr Sairaj [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}