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\nFormer England cricketer Ravi Bopara has been appointed as the head coach of Karachi Kings for Pakistan Super League (PSL) season 10.
\nRavi Bopara takes over from the former West Indies cricketer Phil Simmons, who was the King\u2019s head coach since December 2023.
\nThe decision came after Phil Simmons\u2019 contract was extended as Bangladesh\u2019s head coach for the next two years, up until the end of the 2027 ODI World Cup.
\nThe BCB offered him a longer contract after initially appointing him as interim coach until the conclusion of the 2025 Champions Trophy.
\nRavi Bopara, who represented England in 38 T20Is, was the Karachi Kings\u2019 assistant batting coach for the past three seasons.
\nThe former all-rounder also played and captained the Karachi Kings in earlier editions of the PSL and was named Player of the Tournament in HBL Pakistan Super League (PSL) Season 1.
\nThe Karachi Kings\u2019 social media account posted an animated poster announcing his appointment as head coach.
\nAdditionally, Muhammad Masroor was named the Assistant Coach and high-performance Coach of the Kings.
\nThe PSL 10 will begin from Friday, 11 April with defending champions Islamabad United taking on two times champions Lahore Qalandars at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium.
\nThe six-team tournament will see 34 matches from 11 April to 18 May, with Lahore\u2019s Gaddafi Stadium set to host 13 matches, including two Eliminators and the final.
\nAlso, the upcoming edition will feature an exhibition match, which will be played on 8 April in Peshawar. According to the schedule, Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium will host 11 matches, including Qualifier 1 on 13 May. Karachi\u2019s National Bank Stadium and Multan Cricket Stadium will host five matches each.
\nThe marquee event will also feature three double-headers, with two matches on weekends (Saturday) and one on a national holiday (Labour Day).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Karachi Former England cricketer Ravi Bopara has been appointed as the head coach of Karachi Kings for Pakistan Super League (PSL) season 10. Ravi Bopara takes over from the former West Indies cricketer Phil Simmons, who was the King\u2019s head coach since December 2023. The decision came after Phil Simmons\u2019 contract was extended as Bangladesh\u2019s …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":79080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79081,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79067\/revisions\/79081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}