Mark Coles has been named the brand new head coach of the Zimbabwean ladies’s nationwide facet, with Zimbabwe Cricket confirming the appointment on Monday, September 7 after a “rigorous recruitment course of.” The upcoming five-match T20I sequence in opposition to South Africa, which is able to mark the primary ever worldwide sequence between the 2 sides, is predicted to be the New Zealander’s first on the helm of the group.
Coles has beforehand served as head coach of the ladies’s groups of Pakistan and Scotland and has assisted the Scottish males’s facet too. As well as, he has served as excessive efficiency supervisor at Cricket Papua New Guinea, in addition to taking over teaching consultancy roles in Australia.
“Mark Coles brings intensive worldwide teaching and high-performance expertise, in addition to a powerful understanding of the calls for of the ladies’s recreation,” ZC Chairman Tavengwa Mukuhlani stated. “Along with the technical and help employees appointed throughout our senior and Below-19 buildings, we imagine he’ll assist us construct a aggressive group and set up a transparent pathway for sustained success.
“We’re assured that this group will assist Zimbabwe ladies’s cricket proceed to develop and compete strongly on the worldwide stage.”
Rangarirai Manyande and Trevor Phiri will serve below Coles as Assistant Coach (Batting) and Fielding Coach respectively. Zimbabwe will face South Africa within the first T20I on Friday, September 11, with every of the 5 video games to be performed at Bulawayo’s Queens Sports activities Membership.
