England have appointed former Australia pacer Matt Mason as ladies’s nationwide staff quick bowling coach. Mason has relished a powerful profession as a coach which features a nine-year stint with Worcestershire and a two-year with Leicestershire.
The 48-year-old joins the nationwide aspect because the fast-bowling coach after his exit from Warwickshire from the identical function. He’ll take care of the younger quicks coming into the nationwide staff, together with Issy Wong, Lauren Bell, and Freya Kemp so as to groom them.
Matt Mason joins England’s ladies staff as bowling coach
After relishing a adorned profession, the bowling coach is all set to enterprise on his subsequent challenge with the English nationwide aspect. Jonathan Finch, Director of England Ladies’s Cricket, expressed happiness after having secured the providers of such a longtime and skilled profile as a part of the ladies’s staff administration.
“It was necessary that we recruited somebody with a monitor report of working with and enhancing a bunch of quick bowlers at elite stage. Matt will play a central function in growing present and future England bowlers, and we’re excited by the management he’ll carry to quick bowling throughout the ladies’s recreation,” mentioned Finch as quoted by ECB’s official web site.
“We’re within the strategy of recruiting a Head Coach and Matt can be a valued a part of that particular person’s teaching workers, bringing nice experience and expertise within the discipline of quick bowling. I’d additionally wish to thank Warwickshire CCC in permitting Matt to make the transfer to his new function so shortly,” added Finch.
Not too long ago, Mason has additionally guided the Massive Bash League membership Perth Scorchers to win the 2021-22 title in January taking the same function. In his nine-year stint with Worcestershire, he performed an integral as a part of the teaching workers finally successful the second division of the County Championship in 2017.
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) can also be presently looking out for a brand new head coach for the ladies’s staff after Lisa Keightley opted towards extending her contract.
