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Buchanan set to sign for IPL Kolkata franchise

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Posted online: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 at 1105 hrs IST

Melbourne, February 20:: Former Australia coach John Buchanan will sign up for the Kolkata outfit of the Indian Premier League (IPL) by next week, according to media reports in Melbourne.

It would be an interesting collaboration between Buchanan and Sourav Ganguly, who will lead the Kolkata team, considering their frosty relation in the past.

Ganguly, then a feisty India captain, rubbed Australia the wrong way and the Aussies never hid their disliking for the left-hander.

That, however, seems a matter of the past and the Kolkata IPL team, owned by Shah Rukh Khan's Red Chillies Entertainment, has been negotiating a deal with the high-profile Australian to take over the coaching reins of the side.

Buchanan is expected to sign a three-year contract by next week, Courier Mail reported.

This will be Buchanan's first coaching assignment since he quit the job after leading Australia to yet another World Cup triumph in the West Indies last year.

Buchanan is no more keen on a full-time coaching assignment and IPL's brief duration was one of the major factors behind his decision to return to coaching again.

Western Australia's Tom Moody, who famously lost the Team India coach's job to compatriot Greg Chappell, is also set to take the IPL plunge and take over as coach of the Mohali team.

Meanwhile, Chappell's name is also doing the rounds as coach of the Jaipur franchise, owned by the Emerging Media Group.

Chappell is already the head coach at the Rajasthan Cricket Association-run academy in Jaipur.

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