Former Indian wicketkeeper joins Gujarat Titans as assistant coach

Gujarat Titans have named a new assistant coach, who was the youngest Test wicketkeeper. He will also serve as a batting coach for the team. 

IPL 2022 champions Gujarat Titans are sorting out the coaching team before the IPL 2025 mega auction, which has been scheduled on November 24 and 25 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Parthiv Patel joins the Gujarat Titans coaching team

While the former Indian left-arm pacer Ashish Nehra will continue his head coach role for the team, his former national team teammate now joins Titans. Parthiv Patel has joined Gujarat Titans as an assistant coach and batting coach.

Previously, Parthiv served as a scout for the IPL team Mumbai Indians. Also, he worked for the International League T20 team Mumbai Emirates as a batting coach.

Parthiv played 25 Tests, 38 ODIs, and two T20Is. Making his Test debut at the age of 17 years and 152 days, he became the youngest Test debutant wicketkeeper as well as the youngest debutant wicketkeeper in international cricket among the ICC Full-Members. 

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Parthiv had a memorable career in the IPL and domestic cricket

The wicketkeeper-batter played 139 IPL matches while representing Chennai Super Kings, now-defunct Kochi Tuskers Kerala, now-defunct Deccan Chargers, SunRisers Hyderabad, Royal Challengers Bengaluru (previously known as Royal Challengers Bangalore), and Mumbai Indians. The left-handed batter scored 2848 runs in his IPL career with an average of 22.60 and a strike rate of 120.78. He hit 13 half-centuries in his IPL career, including his highest score of 81 runs. 

Parthiv was part of the three IPL champions, Chennai Super Kings in 2010 and Mumbai Indians in 2015 and 2017. 

Parthiv was successful in domestic cricket. Serving for Gujarat, he became the first captain to have won all three major titles in Indian domestic cricket. Under his leadership, Gujarat won the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2012/13, Vijay Hazare Trophy 2015/16, and Ranji Trophy 2016/17.