Neetu David, the previous India spinner, has been appointed as head of scouting for UP Warriorz for the upcoming season of the Ladies’s Premier League. She is going to take over the position from Rajib Dutta. The 48-year-old former Railways participant might be a part of the help workers led by Abhishek Nayar, who took over as the top coach of the franchise final season.
David, arguably India’s best spinner, has featured in 10 Checks and 97 One-Day Internationals. In a global profession spanning 13 years – from 1995 to 2008 – David picked up 182 worldwide wickets. She holds the report for one of the best bowling figures in an innings in Ladies’s Checks, having claimed 8/53 in opposition to the West Indies within the 1995 Jamshedpur Take a look at.
David has beforehand served because the chairperson of the choice panel for the Indian girls’s nationwide workforce. In her new position, she might be anticipated to scout for rising expertise from the evolving home girls’s cricket ecosystem.
UP Warriorz have been the least profitable franchises within the four-year historical past of the Ladies’s Premier league, profitable solely 12 out of 33 video games (together with one tied match). After reaching the playoffs within the maiden season, UPW have ended their campaigns within the teams levels in every of the following three seasons – ending on the backside of the desk prior to now two seasons, after ending fourth in 2024.
