England ladies’s cricket head coach Jon Lewis has left his position, the England Cricket Board (ECB) introduced on Friday after the aspect misplaced 16-0 towards Australia in ladies’s Ashes earlier this 12 months.
Lewis took over the teaching position in November 2022, throughout which England gained 52 out of their 73 video games, with the staff presently second behind Australia within the ICC world rankings for T20I and ODI cricket.
A clear sweep by the hosts in Australia, which got here after a group-stage exit in final 12 months’s Ladies’s T20 World Cup, noticed the ECB launch an ‘trustworthy’ evaluate final month.
“Whereas the current ICC Ladies’s T20 World Cup and Ladies’s Ashes in Australia have been disappointing, there isn’t a doubt in regards to the expertise now we have obtainable and we’ll look to nominate a successor shortly. We have to be prepared for an thrilling summer season of worldwide cricket and to problem for 2 World Cups over the subsequent 15 months, together with the T20 World Cup on this nation subsequent 12 months,” Clare Connor, ECB Managing Director for England Ladies mentioned in a press release launched by ECB.
Earlier than changing into England Ladies’s Head Coach, Lewis had been ECB’s Elite Tempo Bowling Coach since 2021, working alongside the England Males’s Check and white-ball groups. He was beforehand Head Coach of the Younger Lions, having joined the ECB from the teaching employees at Sussex CCC.
“I’ve labored tirelessly with this group of younger gamers to develop their abilities and understanding of modern-day white ball cricket, while nonetheless making good progress in 2024, successful 83% of all our video games. I’m proud that now we have seen unprecedented bumper crowds in 2023 and 2024 and I’m decided to proceed to assist drive ladies’s cricket ahead in no matter comes subsequent for me. I want all of the gamers the perfect and thank them for letting me be a part of their journeys,” mentioned Lewis.
The ECB is but to announce a brand new coach. England ladies will subsequent tackle West Indies in a two-match Check sequence at residence from Might earlier than they host India from June.