The Sydney Thunder have unveiled former Australian consultant Lisa Keightley as their new WBBL head coach.
The first girl to teach the Australian girls’s cricket group, Keightley has signed a three-year contract with the Thunder and replaces Trevor Griffin, who was sacked final month after two disappointing seasons.
Keightley coached Australia between 2007 and 2008 and was additionally the primary girl to guide the English facet, leaving her put up late final 12 months after almost three years in cost.
The 51-year-old guided England to the ultimate of final 12 months’s ODI World Cup and in her final WBBL stint coached the Perth Scorchers to the 2017 and 2018 finals.
As a participant, Keightley represented Australia in 82 ODIs, 9 Tests and one T20I and was the primary girl to attain an ODI century at Lord’s.
Keightley stated she seemed ahead to the teaching problem forward.
“When I say it’s a challenge, it’s in the sense of the team having a couple of seasons where they’d want to be,” she stated in an announcement.
“I’ll be making sure we’re competitive and winning games of cricket.
“Thunder has a core of gamers who’ve performed for various years and have loved success. I’m hoping it will not take an excessive amount of.”
Keightley’s appointment comes one day after Cricket NSW announced Chandika Hathurusingha would leave his position as assistant coach of the Blues and Sydney Thunder to become Bangladesh’s head coach.
A 26-time Test representative for Sri Lanka, Hathurusingha re-joined the Cricket NSW set-up at the beginning of the 2020 season after initially working on the coaching staff between 2011 and 2014.
His departure follows that of Phil Jaques, who was eliminated as NSW’s Sheffield Shield and Marsh Cup coach after underwhelming begins to each competitions.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
