{"id":16900,"date":"2021-01-02T08:16:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-02T09:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=16900"},"modified":"2021-01-02T10:03:06","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T10:03:06","slug":"herschelle-gibbs-appointed-as-new-head-coach-of-karachi-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=16900","title":{"rendered":"Herschelle Gibbs appointed as new head coach of Karachi Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Gibbs.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Karachi: Former South African opener Herschelle Gibbs appointed as the new head of defending champions of Pakistan Super League (PSL),\u00a0Karachi Kings for the upcoming sixth season.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The appointment came after former head coach and Australian legend Dean Jones passed away before the PSL 5 playoffs.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">He changed the way the game was played with his aggression &amp; passion and taking it into his coaching as well. A great believer in the strength of teamwork &amp; discipline, the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/karachikings?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#karachikings<\/a> are proud to announce our new Head Coach <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hershybru?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@hershybru<\/a> . <br \/>Welcome to the family, Gibbsy!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PSL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PSL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/K4JiGDs7nN\">pic.twitter.com\/K4JiGDs7nN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Karachi Kings (@KarachiKingsARY) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KarachiKingsARY\/status\/1345302780496515072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 2, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Former Pakistan legend and Karachi Kings president Wasim Akram served as interim head coach in theknockout stage.<\/p>\n<p>The 46-year-old Gibbs has played 23 T20Is, 248 ODIs and 90 Tests for South Africa. He scored 400 T20I, 8094 ODI and 6167 Test runs from 1996-2010.<\/p>\n<p>Talking about his coaching career,\u00a0Gibbs served as the head coach of the Rotterdam Rhinos for the inaugural edition of the Euro T20 Slam cricket tournament<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, he also had experience coaching teams in the Shpageeza Cricket League and Kuwait&#8217;s national squad.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2020, he was selected by the Colombo Kings as the Head Coach for the inaugural edition of the Lanka Premier League (LPL).<\/p>\n<p>Note, the most followed franchise of PSL, Karachi Kings defeated Lahore Qalandars in the final of season five at National Stadium in Karachi.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/kings-bowlers-restrict-qalandars-to\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Babar, bowlers make Karachi Kings PSL 5 champions<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Karachi: Former South African opener Herschelle Gibbs appointed as the new head of defending champions of Pakistan Super League (PSL),\u00a0Karachi Kings for the upcoming sixth <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=16900\" title=\"Herschelle Gibbs appointed as new head coach of Karachi Kings\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16900"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16902,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16900\/revisions\/16902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}