On one hand, coaches have been changed continuously in the Pakistan cricket team in the last one year. Gautam Gambhir has also come as the new coach in Team India and after the recent performance of the team, questions are being raised about Gambhir. Bangladesh has recently fired its coach. At the same time, England also removed the coach of the ODI-T20 team a few months ago. Amidst all this, the Afghanistan Cricket Board has rewarded the head coach of its team for his hard work and success. The board has given a new contract to head coach Jonathan Trott, due to which he will remain with the team in future also.

Will remain the coach of the team till 2025

The Afghanistan Cricket Board announced the extension of Trott's contract on Monday 9 December. Referring to the success achieved by the Afghan team in the last one-and-a-half years under Trott's coaching, the board praised him and called him deserving of this award. Under the new contract, Trott will remain the head coach of Afghanistan till 2025. This former England batsman was appointed the head coach of the Afghan team only two and a half years ago and since then the team has made tremendous improvement in its performance in every format and recorded many historic victories.

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Success in T20 and ODI World Cup

Under Trott's coaching, the Afghan team got its biggest success in the T20 World Cup held this year. In this World Cup played in West Indies and America, the Afghan team had reached the semi-finals by defeating many big teams. This was the first time in the history of Afghan cricket that the team reached the semi-finals of an ICC tournament. However, there they had to face defeat from South Africa, but before that Afghanistan had defeated New Zealand, Bangladesh and even former T20 champion Australia.

Before the T20 World Cup, the Afghan team had created the biggest stir in last year's ODI World Cup, when it defeated defending champions England and teams like Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Netherlands. He had defeated England and Pakistan for the first time in any format. The team was even close to defeating champion Australia but Glenn Maxwell took away this happiness from Afghanistan with a surprising innings.

Eyes on Champions Trophy

Despite this, Afghanistan had succeeded in finishing in the top 8 in the 10-team tournament and on this basis had qualified for the Champions Trophy 2025. Now this is the first big tournament in front of Trott, in which he will expect similar performance from his team. This tournament is to be played in February-March 2025. Currently, Trott is on a tour of Zimbabwe with his team, where they have to play ODI, T20 and Test series.