Ashley Noffke named London Spirit trainer within the ladies's Hundred

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Ashley Noffke, the previous Australia allrounder, has gained the race to change into ladies’s head trainer at London Spirit within the Hundred for the 2023 season.

He used to be a number of the contenders to exchange Lisa Keightley as England ladies’s trainer and is known to had been interviewed for that place, however used to be overwhelmed to it via Jon Lewis, the previous Gloucestershire speedy bowler.

“I’m overjoyed to be appointed as head trainer of the London Spirit Ladies’s crew,” Noffke mentioned. “I’ve been attracted via the explosive nature of the contest and stay up for serving to make certain that the Spirit are difficult for the trophy on the finish of August.

“Lord’s is an excessively particular position for me, having performed for Middlesex for 2 seasons in 2002 and 2003, and I will’t wait to get again to the House of Cricket subsequent summer time.”

Noffke replaces Trevor Griffin within the position, who used to be invited to re-apply for his task via Spirit after a disappointing 2022 season which noticed them win most effective two in their six video games. Heather Knight, their captain, ignored the entire festival via damage.

Fraser Stewart, the crew’s common supervisor, mentioned: “We’re overjoyed to have acquired Ashley as our new ladies’s head trainer. He used to be the phenomenal candidate from an inventory of very spectacular candidates, appearing the power and attract of the Hundred and the ladies’s recreation.

“We stay up for seeing the have an effect on he will have on our gifted squad, each growing avid gamers and turning in effects at the box.

“All of the London Spirit organisation would additionally like to position on file our because of Trevor Griffin for all his paintings over the past two years.

“Trevor led the crew to a fourth-placed end within the first version of the Hundred, most effective lacking out on a spot within the Eliminator on Web Run Price and has labored tirelessly for the betterment of the crew. We’re extraordinarily thankful for all his onerous paintings.”

In the meantime, Spirit have showed to ESPNcricinfo that Trevor Bayliss is because of go back in 2023 as males’s trainer. Bayliss changed the overdue Shane Warne within the task forward of final season and helped Spirit achieve the eliminator.

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