IPL 2021: 3 Coaches Who Had Conflict With Their Team Owners

To make a strong team, the strong relationship is required among the players, coaches and other support staffs, administrators and owners. In any kind of unsolved misunderstanding between them can destroy the team culture or bonding.

In the Indian Premier League (IPL) history, it is very rare to see any big unusual conflict inside the team. However, in the past IPL tournaments, we have seen a few conflicts between the team owners and coaches .

IPL 2021: 3 Coaches Who Had Conflict With Their Team Owners

Sanjay Bangar

During the IPL 2016, there was a huge news of verbal fights between Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) co-owner Preity Zinta and then Head Coach Sanjay Bangar after the 1-run defeat against Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB). Media reports were also claiming that Preity Zinta verbally abused and threatened Bangar to sack him from the post.

Later, Preity Zinta disgusted those media reports and demanded apology from the reporter or to reveal the source of that report. Soon after that, Bangar also denied those media reports and clarified that it was just an usual post match discussion, which Preity Zinta also mentioned on her post.

https://www.facebook.com/officialpz/posts/1739628766294351

Just read this on Sanjay's Facebook page. Hope this clarifies everything finally and puts a stop to these stories. pic.twitter.com/jnmWyM5OYU

— Preity G Zinta (@realpreityzinta) May 12, 2016

However, after that IPL season, Bangar stepped down from that post due to his coaching commitment for the Indian national cricket team.

Virender Sehwag

After completing his career as a cricketer, former Indian opener Virender Sehwag was the mentor of his last IPL franchise team Kings XI Punjab (KXIP). As a KXIP mentor, he spent three years between 2016 and 2018.

During the IPL 2018, there was a big news of verbal spat between Sehwag and KXIP co-owner Preity Zinta after a defeat against Rajasthan Royals. According to news reports, Preity Zinta wasn’t happy with the batting order decision where captain Ravichandran Ashwin came to bat at number three, ahead of the batsmen like Karun Nair and Manoj Tiwari.

Later, Preity Zinta slammed that media news report and called it as a “fake news”.

Mumbai Mirror gets it wrong again because we didn’t do Media net & pay them to write articles cuz that’s the only time they get it right. A conversation between Viru & me has been blown out of proportion & suddenly I’m a Villian ! Wow ! #fakenews https://t.co/qGOYhCiVtV

— Preity G Zinta (@realpreityzinta) May 11, 2018

But after that IPL season, Sehwag quit his post as a KXIP mentor.

Ashish Nehra

Former Indian left-arm pacer Ashish Nehra has also entered to the coaching role soon after retiring as a player. In the IPL 2018 and IPL 2019, Nehra was the bowling coach of Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB). RCB finished that season in the sixth and eighth positions during the 2018 and 2019 editions respectively. But after IPL 2019, he ended his coaching journey with the RCB.

Though their was no big news of Ashish Nehra’s conflict with his team RCB, later the former Indian left-arm pacer opened up his thought about RCB’s recent struggle. In the last year, Nehra once pointed out that RCB only give over priority to Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers along with Yuzvendra Chahal, while the other players are not constant enough. Nehra feels that they have to believe on more same players for at least three seasons. Talking about the power of consistency in the squad, Nehra brought the example of Chennai Super Kings (CSK), where he played between 2014 and 2015.

Moreover, Nehra indirectly pointed out the management issue in the RCB side during his comparison between RCB and CSK.

During his commentary in the IPL 2020, Nehra also said that the players and captains should have to listen the coaches’ advices. All these words point out his unhappiness with the RCB’s practices.