Former Australian and Queensland coach Darren Lehmann will be a part of ABC Sport’s broadcast crew for the upcoming summer time of cricket.
Queensland Cricket confirmed on Tuesday that Lehmann, who has spent the final six years with the Brisbane Warmth franchise, together with time spent as assistant coach to the Queensland Bulls, was leaving the state teaching employees.
The South Australian, who performed 27 Exams and 117 ODIs for Australia between 1996 and 2005, stays the all-time Sheffield Defend top-scorer with 12,971 runs for his dwelling state and Victoria.
Lehmann coached Deccan Chargers within the IPL, and had three years with Queensland and the Brisbane Warmth earlier than taking cost of the Australian crew from 2013 to 2018.
He then joined the Brisbane Warmth as head coach in 2019 till 2021. He has been an assistant coach with the crew since then, capped with the Warmth’s BBL title win this season.
“I’ve had a good time over the journey with so many fond recollections from that point,’” Lehmann stated of his stint with the Bulls and Warmth in an announcement asserting his departure.
ABC will once more be the house of cricket this summer time, offering all Australians entry to all Check matches, T20 Internationals, One Day Internationals, Ladies’s Massive Bash League and Males’s Massive Bash League matches performed in Australia.
The marquee occasion of the summer time is the Border-Gavaskar Trophy sequence between Australia and India, which is able to start with the primary Check in Perth from November 20-26.
Lehmann will probably be a part of ABC’s commentary crew for all 5 Exams, the ODI sequence in opposition to Pakistan, a sequence of males’s BBL video games and common appearances on Summer time Grandstand.
The summer time of cricket will begin with the Australian ladies’s crew taking over New Zealand in three T20 Internationals, starting on Thursday evening in Mackay.
Followers will be capable to hear matches throughout ABC’s native radio community and each ball of each match on the ABC hear app.