Australia Name Daniel Vettori As Spin Consultant For ODIs, T20I Vs Pak

Mumbai: Former New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori has been appointed as Australia’s spin consultant for the white-ball leg of their ongoing series against Pakistan.

Cricket Australia confirmed Vettori’s involvement in the coaching setup and the 43-year-old will serve as a spin-bowling consultant for the Aussies in Lahore, where they will play three ODIs and one T20I.

He will take over and start working with the white-ball team in Melbourne before the team travels to Pakistan.

Vettori’s most recent international coaching appointment was as spin bowling coach for Bangladesh between 2019 and 2021. Before Australia’s tour of India in 2017, he was also a member of their set-up for a brief period.

Ahead of the start of the three-match Test series, Australia had appointed Pakistan-born Australian cricketer Fawad Ahmed as the team’s consultant.

Vettori has taken 362 Test wickets, 305 ODI wickets and 38 T20I wickets in his international career. He has coaching experience in the shorter formats of the game in the Indian Premier League and Caribbean Premier League with Royal Challengers Bangalore and Barbados Royals respectively.

Australia and Pakistan are currently playing the final match of the Test series and will face each other for the next three-match ODI series. Both the matches played so far in Rawalpindi and Karachi have been draws. The third and last match will prove to be the deciding match for this series.

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