{"id":580614,"date":"2026-04-02T11:17:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/580614\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T11:17:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T11:17:13","slug":"england-women-appoint-tom-smith-as-bowling-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/580614\/","title":{"rendered":"England women appoint Tom Smith as bowling coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England have appointed former Gloucestershire bowler Tom Smith as their spin-bowling coach for this summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former left-arm spinner joins Charlotte Edwards&#8217; coaching team for a summer that includes a home Women&#8217;s T20 World Cup and series against New Zealand, India and Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England have a number of established and promising left-arm spin bowlers, including Sophie Ecclestone, Linsey Smith, Tilly Corteen-Coleman and Charis Pavely. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 38-year-old will also work with spin-bowling all-rounders Charlie Dean, Alice Capsey and Sarah Glenn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m delighted Tom is joining us after a professional playing career spanning nearly 20 years, most notably at Gloucestershire, before moving into coaching at the same county and working with Birmingham Phoenix women,&#8221; said Edwards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Tom is hugely respected in the game and was a vastly experienced white-ball bowler who will no doubt share some of his great knowledge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Smith added: &#8220;The opportunity is an amazing one, and I&#8217;m incredibly excited to get started. It&#8217;s shaping up to be a brilliant summer, with a home World Cup on the horizon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England open their summer with white-ball series against New Zealand and India before the T20 World Cup begins on 12 June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England have appointed former Gloucestershire bowler Tom Smith as their spin-bowling coach for this summer. The former left-arm&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-580614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}