Australian Legendary fast bowler Shaun Tait has started his new innings as the Bowling Coach of Bangla Tigers for the upcoming season of ADT10 held in Abu Dhabi scheduled to begin in November 2021. He said “I am very excited, I’ve not been involved with T10 competition before, so it’s new for me; it’s a great privilege to be involved with Bangla tigers as a bowling coach”- after signing the contract with Bangla Tigers”.
Shaun Tait, nicknamed as “The Wild Thing” for summoning quick spells with his slingy action, is considered as one of the fastest bowlers of all time with regular average bowling speed 155+ kmph. He made his test debut in the 2005 Ashes tour on the back of a record breaking performance in the Pura cup, but his unconventional action and relentlessness for extreme pace meant that he injured himself and had to go for a shoulder surgery. After comeback from the injury, He was the strike bowler to Australia cricket team’s triumph in 2007 ODI World Cup in West Indies. He was the tournament’s joint-second highest wicket-taker, alongside Sri Lanka’s Muttiah Muralitharan with 23 wickets.
In January 2008 he took an indefinite break from the game due to physical and emotional exhaustion and focused on ODIs and T20s, when he returned later that year. In 2009 Tait retired from Test cricket. Given the fact that he didn’t want to compromise on pace, it would have been too difficult for his frail body to stand up to the rigors of 5 day cricket.
As a late addition to Australia’s one-day squad in 2010, he unleashed a ball against England at Lord’s that registered at 161.1kph, the second-fastest of all-time. At a T20 international on 5 February 2010 against Pakistan Tait bowled a ball measured at 160.7 kph, the fastest ball ever recorded in Australia.
Shaun Tait Played 3 test matches, 35 ODI and 21 T20 international matches in his career. He also played T20 Franchisee Cricket League all over the world including Indian IPL, BPL, Big Bash etc and has represented sides like Chittagong Kings, Melbourne Renegades, Adelaide Strikers and Wellington Firebirds etc.
Tait announced his retirement from playing all formats of cricket in March 2017 due to a chronic elbow injury.
Bangla Tigers optimistic that his outstanding experience especially in shorter format of cricket will assist BT to win the title.