Prior to the 2027 Indian Premier League, renowned Sri Lankan bowler Chaminda Vaas joined the Delhi Capitals as their fast bowling coach. Using a social media video, the team announced the newest member of its expanded coaching staff for the forthcoming campaign.
He was reportedly joining the team earlier. It has now been verified by the video announcement. Vaas’s ability to stroke the ball was known to cause trouble for batters during his playing career. Now, the left-arm pacer will try to impart his skills to a DC contingent that includes Indian pacers such as Auqib Nabi and Mukesh Kumar.
Munaf Patel, the team’s bowling coach for the past two seasons, is replaced by Vaas. After a 16-year absence, he returns to the Indian Premier League (IPL) and joins the coaching team of the Delhi Capitals, which includes Yuvraj Singh as assistant coach and former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly as head coach.
From 2008 to 2010, the 52-year-old played for the now-defunct Deccan Chargers during the first three IPL seasons. One of Sri Lanka’s best bowlers, who also coached the team from 2013 to 2015, claimed 400 ODI wickets and 355 Test wickets.
Vaas played in 322 ODIs and 111 Test matches for Sri Lanka. In the two formats, he claimed 355 and 400 wickets, respectively. Additionally, Vaas was crucial to Sri Lanka’s 1996 ODI World Cup championship run. When he took eight wickets in an ODI against Zimbabwe in 2001 while giving up just 19 runs, it was the most impressive bowling performance of his career.
That continues to be a cricket player’s greatest bowling stat in ODIs. His accomplishments do not stop here. Vaas scored a hat-trick off the opening three deliveries of the 2003 World Cup encounter against Bangladesh. In ODI cricket, this accomplishment is still unparalleled.
He was engaged again by Sri Lanka after serving as Ireland’s bowling coach during the 2016 T20 World Cup. DC has only made it to the final once, in the 2020 season, and is currently aiming for their first IPL championship. In the previous two seasons, they were unable to qualify for the playoffs.
