Gujarat Titans won their maiden IPL trophy in their debut season in the 2022 IPL and ended as runner-up of the next season. With the victory in the IPL 2022 final, Gujarat Titans became the second team to win the IPL title in their first season after Rajasthan Royals in 2008.
The franchise faced a dip in their performance in the IPL 2024 season after they traded their captain Hardik Pandya to the Mumbai Indians for INR 15 crore.
CVC Capital Partners and Torrent Group jointly own the franchise and the team is currently captained by Shubman Gill. In October 2024, CVC captains sold a 64% stake in the Gujarat Titans to Torrent Group, making them the majority stakeholder of the franchise.
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IPL 2025 GT Head Coach
Former Indian cricketer Ashish Nehra is the head coach of Gujarat Titans in the IPL 2025 season. GT won their maiden IPL title under his guidance in the 2022 season.
Notably, Nehra also became the first Indian head coach to win the Indian Premier League.
Before coaching GT, Ashish Nehra worked with Royal Challengers Bangalore(RCB) as their bowling coach for the 2018 season and retained the position for the 2019 IPL. In January 2022, Ashish Nehra was appointed as the head coach of the then-newly formed Indian Premier League franchise Gujarat Titans.
IPL 2025 GT Batting Coach
Former South African cricketer and coach Gary Kirsten is the batting coach of the Gujarat Titans for the IPL 2025 season. Gary Kirsten was appointed as the batting coach and mentor of the Gujarat Titans ahead of the IPL 2022 season.
He has previously coached the Indian Cricket Team as well as the South African Cricket team. Notably, Kirsten was the head coach of the Indian cricket team that won the ICC Men’s 2011 Cricket World Cup under MS Dhoni’s captaincy.
Kirsten was a member of the South Africa team that won the 1998 ICC KnockOut Trophy, the only ICC trophy the country has won till date.
In the Indian Premier League, before serving for Gujarat Titans, Kirsten served as the batting coach of the Royal Challengers Bangalore in the 2018 IPL and was promoted as the head coach of the RCB for the 2019 IPL season.
IPL 2025 GT Coach, Support Staff
Apart from having separate specialists for batting, bowling and fielding, teams will have multiple support staff to assist the team during the tournament. The complete list of GT coaching and support Staff details for the IPL 2025 are listed below:
Position | Name |
Captain | Shubman Gill |
Director of Cricket | Vikram Solanki |
Head Coach | Ashish Nehra |
Batting Coach and Mentor | Gary Kirsten |
Assistant Coach | Aashish Kapoor |
Assistant Coach | Mithun Manhas |
Assistant Coach | Narender Negi |
Assistant Coach | Naeem Amin |
Strength and Conditioning Coach | Sachin Rana |
Strength and Conditioning Coach | Ramdoss Naresh |
Performance Analyst | Sandeep Raju |
Head Physiotherapist | Rohit Sawalkar |
Physiotherapist | Gaurav Sharma |
Team Manager | Satyajit Parab |
Asst. Logistics Manager | Dhaval Shah |
Lead Masseur | Rahul Kumar |
Masseur | Manish Sharma |
Throw Down Specialist | Ashok Sadh |
Team Doctor | Dr Rizwan Khan |
Who is the head coach of the Gujarat Titans for IPL 2025?
Ashish Nehra is the Gujarat Titans head coach for the IPL 2025 season. Notably, under his coaching setup, Gujarat Titans won their first title in the IPL 2022 season.
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