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Charlotte Edwards has been introduced as the brand new Head Coach of the England Girls’s group.
The previous England captain, who represented her nation over 300 occasions, has headed up the ladies’s teaching set-up at Utilita Bowl since 2020.
Edwards moved to Hampshire in 2017, having beforehand performed for Kent, the place she spent the ultimate few years of her profession as a participant, profitable Division Two of the Girls’s County Championship earlier than taking the group to the title the next summer season.
She then grew to become Director of Girls’s Cricket on the Membership in 2018 and took over as Southern Vipers’ head coach in 2020.
Southern Vipers
She oversaw the profitable first yr of the Vipers within the regional period, teaching the group to silverware within the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy, and repeated the achievement the next yr.
2022 noticed the Vipers win their first T20 trophy, named after Charlotte Edwards, earlier than each she and captain Georgia Adams helped the group to turn out to be the primary regional aspect to carry each home trophies on the similar time in 2023.
Over a 20-year enjoying profession, she gained two World Cups and lifted the Ashes 5 occasions.
Since retiring from enjoying, Edwards has coached throughout English home cricket and world T20 leagues, having fun with success with Southern Vipers in regional cricket the place she gained 5 trophies, Southern Courageous in The Hundred, Sydney Sixers within the Girls’s Large Bash League and Mumbai Indians within the Girls’s Premier League.
Reflecting on her time at Hampshire, Charlotte Edwards stated: “I’ve had an incredible eight years on the Membership and am so grateful for the assist I’ve obtained from the gamers, workers and supporters.
“Everybody at Hampshire is completely dedicated to the ladies’s sport and that dedication has proven by means of within the on-field successes we’ve got all loved.“I’m notably grateful to Rod (Bransgrove) for the religion he put in me as I began my teaching journey and each step of the way in which since.
“It has been a really particular time, and will probably be very tough to go away the place that has turn out to be my house. I’m positive that Hampshire will proceed to get pleasure from success on and off the sector and sit up for returning to Utilita Bowl with the England group.”
Adam Carty
Adam Carty, Director of Girls’s Cricket at Hampshire Cricket, stated: “It’s been an exquisite five-year interval for the area, having Lottie on the helm as head coach. Though it at all times felt inevitable, I obtained the information with a heavy coronary heart – such is the power and depth of our relationship.
“I’m positive the entire Hampshire household want Lottie properly in her subsequent enterprise. I thank her for her unwavering dedication and dedication to the trigger.
“Her affect has been unparalleled towards our organisation profitable 5 home titles in 5 years. If we had been to lose her to anybody, I’m proud that her leaving is a results of her being referred to as as much as lead our nationwide group.
“This displays the power of our organisation to provide and develop nice folks, worthy of nationwide group consideration.
“In Hampshire, we’ve got a powerful and sturdy assist group, the vast majority of whom have been on the ladies’s elite home skilled journey since season one. We glance to the long run with optimism and ambition, with a enjoying squad full of established home performers and thrilling younger expertise.
“We stay constructive in our intent to be aggressive throughout all tier one competitions in 2025.
“As for the subsequent head coach, we’re working tirelessly to make sure that we execute brief, and mid-term plans to have the most effective folks in place to serve our on-field efficiency alongside sustaining our organisation’s tradition and values.”
Edwards Delighted
On changing into England Girls’s Head Coach, Edwards added: “I’m so delighted to as soon as once more be a part of the management of the England Girls’s cricket group, and I can not wait to take this group ahead and drive us to success.
“It means the world to me to have the three lions on my chest as soon as once more. Main England as captain was my life for 10 years and I’ll perpetually be keen about this group and our legacy.
“We’ve such a gifted group of gamers, and I’m enthusiastic about working with them and bettering them each as people and as a group.”
