Former England cricket head coach Andy Flower has left his position with Trent Rockets to change into the coach of Hundred rival London Spirit males, it was introduced on Friday.
The 57-year-old’s appointment on a multi-year deal comes after recent funding within the Lord’s-based Spirit franchise from an American-led consortium of expertise entrepreneurs through the not too long ago concluded English season.
Flower, England head coach from 2009 to 2014, guided Royal Challengers Bengaluru to its first Indian Premier League title earlier this 12 months alongside Mo Bobat, who serves in an identical director of cricket position with the Spirit.
“I’m massively excited to be becoming a member of London Spirit and to be working on the Residence of Cricket,” Flower mentioned.
“It’s an actual privilege to be a part of such an iconic venue and organisation.”
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“I’m additionally thrilled to be working as soon as once more with Mo, and for the primary time with each MCC (the house owners of Lord’s) and the Tech Titans.”
Flower succeeds Justin Langer after the previous Australia batsman guided the Spirit to a seventh-placed end within the eight-team 100 balls per aspect competitors, which options each males’s and girls’s sides, in what was his solely season in cost.
One among Zimbabwe’s best ever cricketers, Flower spent 5 years teaching Trent Rockets and guided the Nottingham-based membership to the title in 2022.
MCC and the ‘Tech Titans’, a consortium of rich businessmen together with the chief executives of Google, YouTube, Microsoft, and Adobe, will run the franchise as a three way partnership, with MCC retaining a controlling 51 % stake.
The Spirit has been one of many males’s Hundred’s weakest groups, successful simply 12 of its 38 accomplished matches.
Langer introduced in New Zealand nice Kane Williamson as captain this 12 months and recruited David Warner alongside him on the prime of the order, however they nonetheless completed second-from-bottom.
Revealed on Oct 03, 2025