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Kolkata Knight Riders connected Thursday (November 13, 2025) announced the assignment of erstwhile Australian allrounder Shane Watson arsenic its adjunct manager for the 2026 variation of the Indian Premier League.
Following a palmy vocation arsenic an planetary cricketer, Watson has switched to coaching and mentoring roles successful planetary T20 leagues.
Watson represented Australia successful 59 Tests, 190 ODIs, and 58 T20 Internationals, amassing implicit 10,000 planetary runs and taking much than 280 wickets crossed formats.
"I americium anxious to enactment intimately with the coaching radical and players to assistance bring different rubric to Kolkata," Watson said successful a property release.
Watson was an integral portion of Australia’s 2007 and 2015 ICC World Cup-winning squads and played a cardinal relation successful galore bid victories astir the world.
He adjacent enjoyed a stellar IPL vocation spanning 12 years (2008-2020), with 145 matches and 4 centuries to his name. He has been a portion of victorious IPL sides, including Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings.
"We are thrilled to invited Shane Watson to the KKR family. His acquisition arsenic a subordinate and manager astatine the highest level volition adhd immense worth to our squad civilization and preparation. His knowing of the T20 format is world-class, and we look guardant to his contributions some connected and disconnected the field," Venky Mysore, KKR CEO said.
(With inputs from PTI)
