Charlotte Edwards has been introduced as the brand new Head Coach of the England Girls’s group by the England and Wales Cricket Board.
Edwards is a former England captain who represented her nation over 300 instances, profitable two World Cups and lifting the Ashes 5 instances throughout a 20-year enjoying profession.
Since retiring from enjoying in 2017, Edwards has coached throughout English home cricket and world T20 leagues, having fun with success with Southern Vipers in regional cricket, Southern Courageous in The Hundred, Sydney Sixers within the Girls’s Huge Bash League and Mumbai Indians within the Girls’s Premier League.
“I’m so delighted to as soon as once more be a part of the management of the England Girls’s cricket group, and I can not wait to take this group ahead and drive us to success,” Edwards mentioned concerning the appointment.
“It means the world to me to have the three lions on my chest as soon as once more. Main England as captain was my life for 10 years and I’ll ceaselessly be obsessed with this group and our legacy. We’ve such a gifted group of gamers, and I’m enthusiastic about working with them and bettering them each as people and as a group.
“We’ve the speedy problem of two residence summer season collection, after which it’s straight into the ICC Girls’s World Cup in India this autumn, with a house ICC Girls’s T20 World Cup subsequent summer season. There’s additionally the mouth-watering prospect of the primary ever Olympics for ladies’s cricket in LA 2028. I’m relishing the prospect of profitable trophies and taking this group ahead.”
ECB Deputy CEO and Managing Director England Girls’s Cricket Clare Connor mentioned: “After we drew up the factors for the job it turned obvious in a short time that Charlotte was the excellent candidate.
“She has the expertise, ardour and experience to guide this group to success. The outcomes she has achieved as a Head Coach in a number of environments, since retiring as one of many best ever England gamers, is testomony to her relentless drive and the requirements she units for these round her.
“She is a confirmed winner; she has gained repeatedly as a participant and now as a coach. She possesses a deep data of the sport, each in England and internationally, and he or she understands the significance of making an surroundings that’s each difficult and supportive.
“We’re delighted to have the ability to appoint her as Head Coach of the England Girls’s group and we’re vastly excited for what’s to return.”
Edwards joins the ECB from Hampshire. Her first recreation as England Girls’s Head Coach might be 21 Might, in opposition to West Indies at Canterbury. England Girls’s new Captain might be introduced sooner or later.