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The Blaze have appointed former New Zealand batter Craig Cumming as their new head coach.
Cumming replaces Chris Guest, who departed the Trent Bridge-based women’s team to become England Women Under-19 Performance Lead.
The 49-year-old brings experience from coaching the Otago Sparks, where he won the Hallyburton Johnstone Shield twice in the past three years. He will assume his role at The Blaze after completing Otago’s Super Smash T20 campaign early next year.
“Guesty’s departure gave us an opportunity to look at how we could move forward from a position of strength, having put together such a strong record over the past two summers,” said James Cutt, The Blaze’s Director of Cricket, on the club’s website.
“We conducted an exhaustive, global search to find the best candidate, and – amongst some very strong applicants – Craig’s credentials and pedigree were the most compelling.”
The Blaze are one of eight fully professional county-based teams set to compete in the T20 Blast and One-Day Cup in 2025 under a restructured women’s domestic cricket format.
Cumming takes over a team with a strong track record, having reached three of the last four domestic finals in the previous regional system and winning the Charlotte Edwards Cup earlier this year.
“I’m ambitious to help deliver more of the success they have had in the past couple of seasons,” Cumming stated.
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