Nayar comes with a high reputation as a sharp cricket mind and a lifestyle/motivational coach who have worked with the likes of Dinesh Karthik and Rinku Singh.
Gambhir had taken charge of the team in July and the team will be playing its first Test in his tenure.
The financial nitty-gritties of Gautam Gambhir's appointment as India's head coach are yet to be worked out but that's the "last of his concerns" right now
It is not just MS Dhoni's captaincy, or his players' relaxed outlook that makes Chennai Super Kings so dominant in the IPL, for bowling coach Dwayne Bravo also attributes the consistent run to the lack of outside interference.
CSK bowling coach L Balaji's positive test inside bubble puts Delhi IPL games in fix.
A top BCCI official, after declaring all three cases to be "false positives", later clarified that Balaji along with the unnamed cleaner had come out positive even in the repeat test.
Hussey said he is grateful to his IPL franchise for taking good care of him.
11 South African players, including white-ball skipper Quinton de Kock, pacer Kagiso Rabada and former captain Faf du Plessis, are currently participating in the IPL for various teams.
The BCCI said that it will do everything in its power to arrange for the secure and safe passage of all the participants in IPL 2021.
Pacer L Balaji was on Thursday replaced by R Vinay Kumar in the Indian Twenty20 squad for the two matches against England after picking up a foot injury.
Dhoni to leave for Ranchi on Thursday afternoon by chartered flight.
India all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja will miss Chennai Super Kings' six-day conditioning camp ahead of the team's departure to the United Arab Emirates for the Indian Premier League next month because of personal commitments.
The five-time champions posted a series of tweets and shared the travel plans of its players and support staff.
The Chennai Super Kings squad for the Champions League T20 in South Africa.
Rajneesh Gupta presents statistical summary of Chennai Super Kings and much more.
'I was chatting to our team doctor, whose room was across the hallway from my mine in the hotel, and Kumar (Sangakarra, the Royals' head coach) came around the corner, and drew his finger across his throat, and then we knew it was over.'
On Tuesday, Sunrisers Hyderabad wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha and Delhi Capitals veteran spinner Amit Mishra also tested positive for the dreaded virus as BCCI announced the postponement with immediate effect.
Cricket and films came together for the night.
Ramasubbhu Kuppusamy met cricketer L Balaji at a restaurant in Chennai.
Kolkata Knight Riders jumped to third place in the points table after recording a five-wicket win over Deccan Chargers in a rain-affected low-scoring Indian Premier League match in Cuttack.
L Balaji has said recovering from COVID-19 is like experiencing an episode of Man vs Wild.
Chris Gayle struck a brutal unbeaten 102 to power Royal Challengers Bangalore to a crushing nine-wicket win over Kolkata Knight Riders in their Indian Premier League (IPL) match at the Eden Gardens on Friday.
Praveen Kumar became the seventh bowler to register a hat-trick in the IPL. We present a list of bowlers who have claimed hat-tricks in the three IPL seasons.
Middle-order mainstays Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman, along with four other members of India's Test squad, left for New Zealand from Mumbai early on Monday for the three-match Test series starting March 18.
Medium pacer Munaf Patel, who is nursing a groin injury, will leave the tour of Sri Lanka mid-way to return home for rehabilitation and Tamil Nadu paceman Laxmipathy Balaji will replace him in Colombo. Munaf's injury was first noticed after the first ODI in Dambulla, where he bowled five overs and conceded 32 runs without taking any wicket. He missed the second match.
Rahul Dravid (118) and Dinesh Karthik (103) combined to rescue South Zone from a top-order collapse, guiding them to a 348-run second innings lead against Central Zone on the third and penultimate day of their Duleep Trophy match in Bangalore on Saturday.
A look at the Kolkata Knight Riders's IPL record over the years.
Former Test cricketer Sandeep Patil was selected coach.
Former Australia speedster Dennis Lillee said some 'Sikh boys and a few others are really good and look to be long-term future prospects'.
We will find a way to send back foreign players, says IPL chairman Brijesh Patel.
The Delhi opener will lead the 'A' team in the Emerging Team Trophy one-day tournament, in Sri Lanka.\n\n
Rain washed out the second day's play in the India A'- Nottinghamshire match at Trent Bridge.
Tamil Nadu moved in to the final of the Ranji Trophy with a convincing 132-run win against Delhi.
Delhi ended day 2 of the Ranji Trophy semi-final at 127 for 4, 200 runs behind TN's first innings total of 327.
Two-time champions Kolkata Knight Riders will be striving to turn around their fortunes in IPL 2021 after a below-par showing last season.
Rajneesh Gupta presents statistical summary of Kolkata Knight Riders and much more.
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