Anubhav Katheria
Newly appointed India head coach Gautam Gambhir has confirmed that the Netherlands cricketing legend Ryan ten Doeschate is the new Assistant Coach of the Indian team along with Abhishek Nayar. The Gautam-Abhishek-ten Doeschate trio was with the KKR team in the recent IPL season where they won the championship. Their first assignment for the Indian team is the Sri Lanka tour where India and Sri Lanka will play 3 T20Is and 3 ODIs.
Who is Ryan ten Doeschate?
While many are aware of the name Abhishek Nayyer, Ryan ten Doeschate might not be a familiar name. Ryan ten Doeschate’s cricketing career is quite marvelous.
Ryan ten Doeschate is a cricket coach and former Netherland cricketer. Born in South Africa he played ODIs and T20Is for Netherlands national cricket team. Right-handed batting all-rounder and right-arm fast-medium bowler, ten Doeschate made his debut for Netherlands cricket team in 2005 ICC Trophy. He was first discovered by Essex county cricket during a pre-season tour to South Africa and was signed by them for the 2003 English season. He has represented Netherlands in 2009 World Twenty20 and 2011 World Cup where ten Doeschate scored 119 against England becoming the first Dutch player to score a century against a full member of ICC.
His records in ODIs are markable where he has played 33 matches and has an average of 67 with 5 centuries and 9 half-centuries with the ball, he has 55 wickets by his name with an economy of 5.
In T20Is he has played 23 matches and scored 533 runs with an average of 41 and strike rate of 132.91, in bowling he took 13 wickets in 10 matches with an economy of 7.
In his 29-match long IPL career he has scored 326 runs at an average of 23.29 where his highest score was 70*.
Ten Doeschate has played club and franchise cricket across the globe be it New Zealand, England, Australia, India, Bangladesh, Hong Kong and Pakistan.
In September 2021 he announced his retirement.
He is also part of the support staff of KKR franchise in Major League Cricket, Caribbean Premier League and ILT20.
Gambhir-ten Doeschate connection.
Gambhir and Doeschate were teammates in the KKR squad in IPL 2011 where Gambhir was first time leading the side and both were in the support staff of KKR in the recent IPL edition.
Gambhir in one of his interactions with media said that in his 42 year long career he has never seen a selfless cricketer like Ryan ten Doeschate. He also recalled an incident of 2011 IPL where KKR was playing their first match with 3 overseas player and ten Doeschate’s name was not in the 11-player squad, ten Doeschate had a phenomenal 50-over World Cup and still was not in the 11, recalling to which Gambhir said when he saw ten Doeschate carrying the drinks for the team he saw no sign of disappointment on ten Doeschate’s face. Gambhir also said that he can take a bullet for him, he is the best team player and selfless human being he has ever come across Gambhir added.