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Colin Ingram’s refashioned profession as a professional white-ball cricketer will include management tasks at Glamorgan
Colin Ingram remained in lethal kind in 2017 – Getty Images
Disastrous South Africa batsman Colin Ingram and experienced Australian seamer Michael Hogan will share Glamorgan’s captaincy tasks next season.
The choice can be found in the wake of Jacques Rudolph’s retirement. Rudolph stood down in the Championship in May, with Hogan actioning in on an interim basis, however he led Glamorgan to Finals Day in the NatWest Blast before his profession pertained to an end
Ingram has actually turned himself into a white-ball expert after a respected limited-overs season fired his aspiration to play in more worldwide T20 competitions worldwide.
The standout entertainer of any county in minimal overs cricket over the last 2 seasons, Ingram struck 1,026 runs and 5 centuries in white-ball competitors throughout 2017 and was called the PCA MVP award winner for the T20 Blast in 2016 and One-Day Cup in 2017.
Ingram will include for the Adelaide Strikers in the Big Bash later on this year however his only experience in the IPL featured the Delhi Daredevils before he signed up with Glamorgan at the end of 2014.
Hogan will now continue to lead the side in red-ball cricket next term, while Ingram will have the captaincy responsibilities in the One-Day Cup and T20 Blast competitors.
In the very first 2 video games under Hogan’s management Glamorgan protected back-to-back success versus Durham at Swansea and at New Road over Worcestershire, the ultimate Division Two champs, before completing seventh in Division Two with a line-up including approximately 8 Academy graduates towards completion of the season.
Glamorgan Chief Executive Hugh Morris, stated: “We are extremely lucky to have 2 exceptional leaders within the team and the choice to designate Michael and Colin was consentaneous by our Committee. By splitting the captaincy throughout a hectic season both gamers can bring fresh motivation throughout the various formats.”
