Veteran South African batter David Miller has been named the brand new captain of Barbados Royals for the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) 2022 season. Miller replaces West Indies all-rounder Jason Holder, who nonetheless stays an important a part of the Royals. Aside from Holder, they’ve retained key gamers resembling Kyle Mayers, Oshane Thomas, Obed McCoy, and Hayden Walsh Jr. Royals have additionally signed one other South African star Quinton de Kock and Afganisthani all-rounder Mujeeb Ur Rahman.
Miller final performed CPL for Jamaica Tallawahs in 2018 and likewise represented St Lucia Zouks in 2016. He has scored 332 runs in simply 15 CPL matches at a powerful strike fee of 146.90. In the meantime, in IPL 2022 the explosive middle-order batter scored 481 runs at a strike fee of 142.73 and guided the Gujarat Titans to the title. He’s excited to hitch Barbados Royals, which is co-owned by one of many stakeholders of his former IPL crew Rajasthan Royals. He acknowledged that it’s a privilege to captain the Royals and is trying ahead to working with the crew for the 2022 season, which begins on the thirty first of August.
“Throughout my time on the Royals within the IPL, I at all times felt very valued and have been in a position to set up a deep reference to the crew. It’s an thrilling time for me to return to the Barbados Royals, and a privilege to have been appointed because the captain. It’s a crew that has an abundance of younger and skilled expertise from the Caribbean and I’m trying ahead to working with your entire group to get all the way down to reaching our targets for the 2022 season,” David Miller mentioned.
We’re all delighted to have signed David Miller: Trevor Penny
Barbados Royals, the two-time CPL champions, completed the 2021 version on the final place and the 2020 version on the second-last place. The addition of the in-form Proteas duo will likely be an enormous increase to their probabilities for the upcoming season. Head coach Trevor Penney, who’s an assistant coach at Rajasthan Royals, praised Miller’s potential to learn the conditions on the pitch and is worked up to work with him once more.
“Having labored with David Miller earlier than on the Rajasthan Royals, we knew he has a cricketing mind which not solely reads conditions very nicely on the sector, however can also be very passionately concerned off the sector. We’re all delighted to have signed him and look ahead to working with him throughout the season,” Trevor Penney mentioned.
