{"id":2161194,"date":"2025-11-17T06:37:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T06:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2161194"},"modified":"2025-11-17T06:37:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T06:37:06","slug":"kumar-sangakkara-appointed-rajasthan-royals-head-coach-for-ipl-2026-replacing-rahul-dravid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kumar-sangakkara-appointed-rajasthan-royals-head-coach-for-ipl-2026-replacing-rahul-dravid\/","title":{"rendered":"Kumar Sangakkara Appointed Rajasthan Royals Head Coach for IPL 2026, Replacing Rahul Dravid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Former Sri Lankan batter-wicketkeeper Kumar Sangakkara was appointed as the Rajasthan Royals (RR) head coach for the upcoming Indian Premier League (IPL) season on Monday, November 17. Sangakkara will replace former Indian legend batter Rahul Dravid.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>48-year-old Sangakkara served as the head coach of the RR team from 2021 to 2024, and he was replaced by Dravid for the 2025 edition. After the conclusion of the last edition of the tournament, the franchise confirmed Dravid would no longer be at the helm. RR finished at the night position on the points table under Dravid in the IPL 2025 season, scoring just 18 points from 14 matches.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rajasthan Royals have announced that Kumar Sangakkara has been reappointed as their head coach for IPL 2026 in addition to continuing his role as the franchise&#8217;s Director of Cricket. Sangakkara previously served as RR&#8217;s head coach from 2021 to 2024. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yMJ5oFiUPh\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/yMJ5oFiUPh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 IANS (@ians_india) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ians_india\/status\/1990299018820513979?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">November 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also Read |\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lokmattimes.com\/cricket\/news\/csk-ipl-2026-retention-list-chennai-super-kings-retained-and-released-players-ahead-of-auction-a507\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">CSK IPL 2026 Retention List: Chennai Super Kings\u2019 Retained and Released Players Ahead of Auction.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was also speculated that there was a rift between Dravid and Sanju Samson, which was later denied by the former. Under Sangakkara&#8217;s coaching, the franchise reached the 2022 final and qualified for the playoffs in the 2024 edition.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">RAJASTHAN ROYALS EDIT FOR THE NEW HEAD COACH \ud83e\udd76<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; It&#8217;s Kumar Sangakkara. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zArm2V3VsR\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/zArm2V3VsR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CricCrazyJohns\/status\/1990294663111360785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">November 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m honoured to return as Head Coach and continue working with this talented group. I\u2019m also pleased to have a strong coaching team alongside me. Vikram, Trevor, Shane, and Sid each bring valuable experience in their areas, and together we are focused on preparing the players in the best possible way,&#8221; Sangakkara said in an official statement.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Emotions of 2025. The Mantra for 2026. | Head Coach Kumar Sangakkara speaks | Rajasthan Royals\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kc3TzNlvwr8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe have a clear understanding of where we want to go as a group, and our aim is to build a team that plays with clarity, resilience, and purpose,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.lokmattimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Sri Lankan batter-wicketkeeper Kumar Sangakkara was appointed as the Rajasthan Royals (RR) head coach for the upcoming Indian Premier League (IPL) season on Monday, November 17. Sangakkara will replace former Indian legend batter Rahul Dravid.\u00a0 48-year-old Sangakkara served as the head coach of the RR team from 2021 to 2024, and he was replaced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2161195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[340520,386433,324900,324902],"class_list":["post-2161194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-ipl-2026","tag-kumar-sangakkara","tag-rahul-dravid","tag-rajasthan-royals"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Kumar-Sangakkara-Appointed-Rajasthan-Royals-Head-Coach-for-IPL-2026.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2161194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2161196,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161194\/revisions\/2161196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2161195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2161194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2161194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2161194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}