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Seniors

No more mentors, Sarandeep retained as Delhi's Chief Coach

The DDCA has retained Sarandeep Singh as the Head Coach of the Delhi senior men’s team. While Kuldeep Rawat and V Arvind retain their positions as assistant coaches, Kshitiz Sharma has replaced Bantu Singh who has been shifted to the High Performance Centre (Women) as Chief Batting Coach

TDJ News Service

07 Oct, 2025

New Delhi: The Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) has decided to do away with the posts of mentor, picked last year, and have brought in KP Bhaskar as the Chairman of Men’s Selection Panel. Yashpal Singh and Manu Nayyar are the other two members of the selection panel.

The DDCA has also retained Sarandeep Singh as the Head Coach of the Delhi senior men’s team. While Kuldeep Rawat and V Arvind retain their positions as assistant coaches, Kshitiz Sharma has replaced Bantu Singh who has been shifted to the High Performance Centre (Women) as Chief Batting Coach.

Gursharan Singh, who was the Chairman of selectors last season, has been shifted to the High Performance Centre (Men) as Chief Batting Coach.

The DDCA had picked Atul Wassan (Men - White Ball), Robin Singh Jr (Men - Red Ball) and Reema Malhotra (Women) as mentors but this season there is no place for mentors.

Here is the list of the non-playing staff picked by DDCA this season:

Senior Men’s Selection Committee: Yashpal Singh, KP Bhaskar, Manu Nayyar (Bhaskar being the senior-most will be the Chairman)

Senior Men’s Coaching staff: Sarandeep Singh (Chief Coach), V Arvind (Assistant Coach), Kshitiz Sharma (Assistant Coach) and Kuldeep Rawat (Assistant Coach)

Trainer: Sanjeev Chaudhary, Bhavesh

Physio: Avinash Boyat

Managers: Sachin Gupta, Mahesh Bhati

Masseur: Rajiv

Throwdown specialist: Abhishek Saxena

Men’s Under-23 Coaching staff: Shanker Saini (Chief Coach), Mohan Chaturvedi (Assistant Coach), Rajinder Singh Chawla (Assistant Coach), Shashi Ranjan (Assistant Coach)

Trainer: Vipin

Physio: Jitinder Kumar

Manager: Ravinder Singh, Rajiv Giri

Masseur: Ritik Kumar

Throwdown specialist: Daman

Senior Men’s logistics manager: Vivekanand Jha

Junior Men’s Selection Committee: Ashu Dani (Chairman), Praveen Gupta (Member), Abhishek Sharma (Member)

Men’s Under-19 Coaching staff: Raju Sharma (Chief Coach), Kunal Lal (Assistant Coach-Bowling), Pradeep Chawla (Assistant Coach-Batting), Robin Bisht (Assistant Coach-Fielding)

Trainer: Rajiv Chauhan

Physio: Rahul Rajput

Managers: Ravi Goswami, Gurusatkar

Masseur: Anuj Kumar Sharma

Throwdown Specialist: Arun Arora

Men’s Under-16 Coaching staff: Narendra Singh (Chief Coach), Sachin Aggarwal (Assistant Coach), Chhatter Singh (Assistant Coach), Manan Sharma (Assistant Coach).

Trainer: Inderjeet Singh

Physio: Devarish Jindal

Managers: Sunny Gupta, Deepak Sharma

Masseur: Anurag Sharma

Junior Men’s Logistics Manager: Prateek Sharma

Men’s Under-14 Coaching staff: Abhishek Mankotia (Chief Coach), Gaurav Sharma (Assistant Coach), Harpreet Singh (Assistant Coach), Dev Dutt (Assistant Coach)

Trainer: Ankur Tyagi

Physio: Nikhil Kumar

Managers: Ajay Tiwari, Ashok Gupta

Logistics Manager: Neeraj Gupta

Senior Women’s Selection Committee: Reema Malhotra (Chairperson), Swarn Chadha (Member), Rani Ojha (Member)

Junior Women’s Selection Committee: Tilak Raj (Chairman), Devender Sharma (Member), Sushman Chaudhary (Member).

Senior Women’s Coaching staff: Deepti Dhyani (Chief Coach), Gautam Vadhera (Assistant Coach – Batting), Ashish Malhotra (Assistant Coach – Bowling), Mandeep Kaur (Assistant Coach – Fielding)

Trainer: Vipin Rana

Physio: Shweta Dhawan

Managers: Amanjeet Dhillon, Vishal Tyagi

Throwdown specialist: Girish

Masseur: Dhananjay

Women’s Under-23 Coaching staff: Latika Kumari (Chief Coach), Suhail Sharma (Assistant Coach), Kavita (Assistant Coach), Joginder Singh (Assistant Coach)

Trainer: Kuljeet Singh

Physio: Surya Patel

Managers: Meenakshi Bhaskar, Harsh Gautam

Senior Women’s Logistics Manager: Namrata Sharma

Women’s Under-19 Coaching staff: Khyati Gulani (Chief Coach), Swapandeep Singh (Assistant Coach), Babita Negi (Assistant Coach – Batting), Kirti Arya (Assistant Coach – Bowling), Kartar Nath (Assistant Coach – Fielding)

Trainer: Parvesh

Physio: Ramandeep

Managers: Monica Juneja, Sanjeet Anand

Women’s Under-15 Coaching Staff: Mahesh Sharma (Chief Coach), Asha Rawat (Assistant Coach), Chanchal Panwar (Assistant Coach), Rakesh Jha (Assistant Coach)

Trainer: Pankaj

Physio: Vidhisha Sharma

Manager: Taruna Singh, Piyush Gupta

Logistics Manager (Junior Women’s): Praveen Srivastava

 

High Performance Group

Men’s

Gursharan Singh (Chief Batting Coach), Sumit Dogra (Assistant Batting Coach), Sanjeev Sharma (Chief Bowling Coach), Sumit Narwal (Assistant Bowling Coach), Akash Sudan (Fielding coach), Wasim Raja (Wicketkeeping Coach), Mohammad Bilal (Trainer), Ajay Chaudhary (Manager), Bhaskar (Manager), Pradyuman Rao (Logistics Manager)

Women’s

Bantoo Singh (Chief Batting Coach), Kailash Rawat (Assistant Batting Coach), Robin Singh Jr (Chief Bowling Coach), Vishal Razdan (Assistant Coach), Agnesh Surya (Fielding Coach), Tanya Mahendru (Trainer), Shalini Tomar (Manager), Vikas (Manager), Shivani Gupta (Logistics Manager)

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