In a big transfer for ladies’s cricket in England, Ali Maiden, who performed a vital function as England’s assistant coach throughout their 2017 ODI World Cup victory, has been appointed as the primary head coach of Bears Ladies. Maiden will transition from his present function with Yorkshire’s males’s group on the finish of the season to hitch the Bears, primarily based at Edgbaston, beginning November 1, 2024.
Maiden’s teaching profession has predominantly been within the males’s recreation in recent times. Nonetheless, his expertise with ladies’s cricket is in depth, having been a part of England’s teaching workers throughout their 2017 World Cup triumph. Most lately, he served as an assistant coach to Ashley Noffke when London Spirit clinched the title in The Hundred’s ladies’s competitors this 12 months.
Expressing his enthusiasm for the brand new function, Maiden acknowledged, “I am vastly excited to be becoming a member of Bears Ladies firstly. I’ve spoken to a number of folks on the membership and it is clear they’re keen about ladies’s cricket, forming a profitable facet, and inspiring extra ladies and women into the game. I’ve had varied teaching and head coach roles and have been in search of a possibility to get again into ladies’s cricket.”
The Bears Ladies, a group run by Warwickshire, are set to be one of many eight ‘Tier 1’ sides competing in England’s new home construction for ladies’s cricket from 2025. The restructuring goals to strengthen the aggressive panorama of ladies’s cricket in England, providing a sturdy platform for expertise growth. Laura MacLeod, who will function the director of cricket, has already overseen the signings of 5 key gamers: Emily Arlott, Hannah Baker, Chloe Brewer, Katie George, and Charis Pavely.
Maiden’s appointment is anticipated to carry a wealth of expertise and a recent perspective to the Bears as they put together for the upcoming season. His observe file in each males’s and girls’s cricket, coupled along with his latest success with London Spirit, positions him as a extremely succesful chief for the group.
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Colin Graves, Chair of Yorkshire CCC, commented on Maiden’s departure: “Everybody on the membership needs Ali all the perfect in his future profession and thanks him for his contribution to Yorkshire CCC during the last three seasons.” Maiden has been with Yorkshire since 2021, the place he has been instrumental in working intently with the group’s batters, serving to to develop their expertise and enhance their performances.
As Maiden prepares to tackle this new problem, his departure marks the tip of a profitable tenure at Yorkshire, however his arrival on the Bears Ladies alerts a promising new chapter in his teaching profession and for the group he’ll lead. With the 2025 season on the horizon, Maiden’s experience and management are anticipated to be key in constructing a aggressive and profitable facet that may make a robust impression in England’s evolving ladies’s cricket panorama.
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