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Mick Lewis become Yorkshire as bowling coach
Mick Lewis, the previous Australia crease bowler, has followed his previous Essex lead trainer, Anthony McGrath, to Yorkshire, where he will function as the club's new men's bowling trainer, on a three-year bargain.
Lewis, 50, had been at Chelmsford beginning around 2022, during which time he worked with players like Jamie Watchman and Sam Cook, and aided guide the group to three top-four completions in the Province Title and a race to the Imperativeness Impact Finals Day.
Nonetheless, McGrath as of late left his lead trainer job at Essex to take up a similar situation at Headingley, and Lewis is set to go with the same pattern. He will start his new job toward the finish of February, in front of Yorkshire's pre-season visit through Abu Dhabi in Spring.
"I'm excited to join Yorkshire at what is a particularly thrilling time for the club," Lewis said. "I'm anticipating working with an extraordinary companion of bowlers to assist them with making progress in Division One and can hardly hold on to get everything rolling.
"Ben Coad's record justifies itself and the possibility of working with arising gifts like Ben Bluff, George Slope and Jafer Chohan energizes me significantly".
Before his transition to Essex, Lewis had been head bowling trainer at Victoria, where he assisted the group with getting four Sheffield Safeguard titles. He likewise had spells in the Large Slam with both the Melbourne Stars and Rebels.
In a 14-year playing profession, Lewis guaranteed 460 wickets in all organizations, remembering 11 for nine white-ball appearances for Australia. His sad specialty came in his last debut, against South Africa at Johannesburg in 2006, where he yielded 113 runs in ten overs, then the most costly examination in ODI history.
McGrath added: "Mick will carry gigantic experience to the job and will without a doubt enhance every one of our bowlers who I realize will profit from his huge abundance of bowling information. His record is there to see, and it is demonstration of the desires we have as a club that we can carry Mick to Headingley.
"Our time together at Essex was fruitful and I'm anticipating further achievement together here at Yorkshire".
Gavin Hamilton, Head supervisor of Cricket, expressed: "Everybody at Yorkshire is glad to invite Mick into his new job here. He has an extraordinary record of creating global quality bowlers and I realize his arrangement will energize our ongoing yield of bowlers who are as of now anticipating growing further with him.
"He is an option to the training staff that we realize will add esteem right away, setting us in the best situation to contend in 2025".