Former New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming will be the coach of Dallas-based Major League Cricket (MLC) club Texas Super Kings (TSK), which announced its partnership with IPL side Chennai Super Kings (CSK).
Four-time IPL champions, CSK had recently said that they would make a “major announcement” with regard to their association with the new T20 tournament in the US.
TSK said in a statement that CSK will bring “operational expertise” and help “Texas compete on the field”.
“The (Texas Super kings) team will be led by coach Stephen Fleming. Fleming is a former captain of the New Zealand national cricket team and head coach of Indian Premier League team Chennai Super Kings. He played in the first-ever Twenty20 international to be staged as captain of the New Zealand team in 2005,” said a TSK statement.
Fleming is a long-serving CSK head coach and has guided the Chennai franchise to four IPL titles.
CSK joined Delhi Capitals and Mumbai Indians as the third IPL side to get associated with the six-team MLC, scheduled to begin on July 13.
The six MLC teams are San Francisco Unicorns, Lost Angeles, MI New York, Seattle Orcas, Texas Super Kings and Washington DC.
