MI London have appointed Kieron Pollard and Lisa Keightley because the coaches of their males’s and girls’s groups respectively for the 2026 version of The Hundred.
Former West Indies all-rounder Pollard has a robust relationship with Mumbai Indians and their world community of groups.
He has beforehand performed within the Indian Premier League (IPL) for MI in addition to for his or her sister groups in Main League Cricket, SA20 and ILT20.
Pollard had a stint as assistant coach of the England’s males’s crew for the 2024 T20 World Cup and is at the moment MI’s batting coach for the IPL.
The 38-year-old Trinidadian has performed greater than 730 home T20 matches – essentially the most of any participant within the historical past of the format – and 101 T20 internationals for West Indies.
He beforehand performed for Surrey in The Blast in addition to for London Spirit and Southern Courageous in The Hundred.
Pollard stated it was an “thrilling alternative” to “construct a robust crew” and “create a high-performance tradition” at The Oval-based franchise.
He added: “Having performed in The Hundred and for Surrey, I’ve seen first-hand the sturdy alignment between Surrey’s cricketing tradition and the Mumbai Indians’ profitable ethos.”
Ex-Australia participant Keightley takes on the MI London’s ladies’s aspect having beforehand coached Northern Superchargers – now generally known as Sunrisers Leeds – who she guided to the ladies’s title in 2025.
The 54-year-old is head coach of MI’s aspect within the Girls’s Premier League together with Sydney Thunder within the Girls’s Huge Bash League.
Keightley, who performed 9 Assessments and 82 one-day internationals for Australia, beforehand had spells as coach of the nationwide groups of Australia and England.
She stated: “Having witnessed the crew’s previous success and now getting into this function, I am trying ahead to the journey and to a brand new problem after profitable The Hundred final season.”
MI London had been beforehand generally known as Oval Invincibles earlier than a reputation change following funding from the house owners of IPL aspect Mumbai Indians.
Reliance Industries Restricted purchased a 49% stake within the franchise, which has produced 5 title-winning groups in The Hundred.
Oval Invincibles males’s and girls’s groups had been coached by Tom Moody and Jonathan Batty final yr.
Elsewhere, Trent Rockets introduced they’ve retained Tom Banton for his or her males’s crew and Australia all-rounder Ash Gardner within the ladies’s competitors.
Southern Courageous additionally unveiled their new crimson and blue branding, which aligns with the colors utilized by the Capitals sides within the IPL, SA20 and ILT20 that their new house owners are concerned with.
