Girls’s Premier League (WPL) defending champion Mumbai Indians (MI) has named former Australia leg-spinner Kristen Beams as its spin-bowling coach for the upcoming season.
The 41-year-old represented Australia in all three codecs from 2014 to 2017. She’s going to be a part of head coach Lisa Keightley, bowling coach and mentor Jhulan Goswami, batting coach Devika Palshikar and fielding coach Nicole Bolton within the MI help employees.
Beams performed one Take a look at, 30 ODIs, and 18 T20Is for Australia and turned out for the Melbourne Stars within the Girls’s Large Bash League (WBBL) from 2015-16 to 2019-20.
She then turned to teaching within the WBBL, the Hundred, and the Australia Beneath-19 ladies’s workforce.
“It’s an unbelievable alternative to work with somebody like Jhulan Goswami, one of many greats of the sport, any person I performed cricket towards,” Beams mentioned in MI’s Instagram publish.
“[It’s an] unbelievable tradition…that they’ve developed a profitable tradition over a extremely lengthy time period, however a household—that’s what you hear everybody discuss, that this group is so tight-knit, and it’s a household, and it’s what you need to be part of. And I feel as a coach coming in, that’s precisely what you need to have the ability to do, is to stroll into an setting that feels actually tight-knit and a workforce that is aware of the best way to win,” mentioned the Australian after becoming a member of the two-time WPL champion.
Revealed on Dec 29, 2025