Punjab Kings have appointed former England first class cricketer Julian Ross Wooden as their batting guide, with emphasis on power-hitting, forward of the brand new season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022, starting on March 26.
Wooden has a name because the pioneer in power-hitting training, having labored with avid gamers around the IPL, the Giant Bash League and different T20 leagues. Prior to now, Wooden has helped the likes of Ben Stokes, Prithvi Shaw, Sam Billings and Carlos Brathwaite with the science of staying nonetheless and hitting the ball out of the park.
With avid gamers like Liam Livingston, Jonny Bairstow, Shahrukh Khan and Raj Angad Bawa, who’re large hitters themselves, within the PBKS outfit now, it is going to be fascinating to look how his efforts are replicated at the box.
The 53-year-old will paintings at the Punjab batters along assistant trainer Jonty Rhodes, who has been given further accountability this season but even so the fielding division.
Who’s Julian Wooden, the batting guide for our Kings this 12 months!
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— Punjab Kings (@PunjabKingsIPL) March 14, 2022
“We’re jubilant to announce Julian Ross Wooden as our new batting guide for #TATAIPL2022,” the staff wrote on social media.
The franchise had a rather a hit public sale as they roped within the likes of Jonny Bairstow, Shikhar Dhawan, Liam Livingstone, Kagiso Rabada and Shahrukh Khan.
Punjab had Wooden on their radar for the remaining two years however had been in spite of everything in a position to safe his services and products remaining week.
Wooden have been approached via different IPL groups previously however the COVID-19 pandemic contributed to his overdue arrival on the earth’s largest T20 league.
Punjab badly want a turnaround of their fortunes, having completed sixth out of 8 groups previously 3 seasons. Their simplest ultimate look got here in 2014.