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Ben Sawyer reappointed New Zealand women lead trainer for two years time
Ben Sawyer has been reappointed head coach of the New Zealand women's team for two years.
Sawyer, who administered New Zealand's very first T20 World Cup win recently - they beat South Africa in the last - will stay in charge until December 2026. This period remembers the ladies' ODI World Cup for India in late 2025 and the ladies' T20 World Cup in Britain in mid 2026.
"I'm stirred up Ben's re-endorsed with us," white-ball commander Sophie Devine said. "The work he's finished with the White Greeneries bunch and for ladies' cricket in New Zealand has been tremendous.
"The group is in an extraordinary spot at the present time, so I think securing him for an additional two years and having that consistency will be enormous as far as we're concerned."
Sawyer, who has functioned as an associate mentor with the Australia ladies' group before, was first delegated New Zealand lead trainer on a two-year agreement in June 2022, which went through till the finish of the India visit in October 2024. His reappointment follows a broad survey process, as per a NZC public statement.
New Zealand didn't begin their year well, winning only one out of 13 T20Is heading into the T20 World Cup, yet they made something happen in the UAE.
"We're so satisfied to have Ben sign on for an additional two years," Liz Green, NZC top of ladies' elite exhibition, said. "He's opened a ton of conviction and confidence in this gathering and to have him stay presently is enormous, both for the ongoing crew, and the drawn out anticipating the White Greeneries. The consistency and dependability is significant.
"Ben's had a major impact in advancing the White Greeneries and aiding fabricate the ladies' pathway. There was an immense measure of development during that competition, a consequence of what Ben and the mentors have been working throughout recent years."
New Zealand will next take on Australia in a three-match ODI series that starts off on December 19 in Wellington. The crew for the series will be reported in the not so distant future.
NZC likewise said that the T20 World Cup prize will be in plain view at the forthcoming matches, "allowing fans the opportunity to see it very close and catch photographs".