Pretoria Capitals have “tapped into” the experience of coaches Sourav Ganguly and Shaun Pollock to reach their second SA20 final, says former England bowler Tymal Mills.<\/p>\n
Ganguly took on his first head coach role for this season, having previously been director of cricket, while Pollock is assistant coach having focused on commentary since retirement.<\/p>\n
They led Capitals to a second-placed finish in the group stage, but then beat Sunrisers Eastern Cape in Qualifier 1 to reach their first final since the inaugural season in 2023. <\/p>\n
Two-time winners Sunrisers were then victorious in Qualifier 2 to secure their place in a fourth successive final. <\/p>\n
“I’ve loved it – it’s been awesome so far both on and off the field,” Mills, who has taken five wickets in five games, told BBC Sport. <\/p>\n
“Ganguly has been good. He’s all in, he’s very committed and watching footage and always talking about the game and I think we’ve responded well to him.<\/p>\n
“Polly’s been good fun. He’s high energy, he talks a lot, he’s got stories for days which keep the boys entertained. <\/p>\n
“It’s been great to pick his brains and talk to him and just little bits around training.<\/p>\n
“Between Polly and Sourav there’s obviously a lot of experience there and we’ve tapped into it as much as we can.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pretoria Capitals have “tapped into” the experience of coaches Sourav Ganguly and Shaun Pollock to reach their second…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-389636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}