Trent Keep joins the Coaching Team<\/p>\n
Former Australia A Coach, Trent Keep will be joining the coaching staff at Somerset County Cricket Club in mid-May through to the end of June.<\/p>\n
At the start of his coaching journey Trent led Gold Coast to Premier cricket titles in Queensland before being employed to set up programs in North Queensland and develop the elite young talent in the region.<\/p>\n
As Talent Manager and Head Coach for Cricket Northern Territory, Trent was also named as Assistant Coach of the Australian VI cricket team.<\/p>\n
In 2025 Trent was appointed as Assistant Coach to Tim Paine for the Australia A team for the series versus Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n
Regarding Trent\u2019s appointment, Somerset Head Coach, Jason Kerr said: \u201cWith the departure of Shane Burger, who was an outstanding coach, we considered all options and whilst we were going through that process, we came across Trent and he was a really exciting individual who is on a coaching journey himself. Trent will add real value to our environment and bring incredible energy and it\u2019s a great opportunity for him to get to know us and vice versa. We\u2019re excited to have him within the environment and we\u2019ll be keeping him busy across both our men\u2019s teams and the Pathway. This will give us the opportunity to really get a feel for him as a coach in our environment.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy philosophy is that if you\u2019re a really good coach, you can coach all facets. He\u2019ll be spending time with the First XI as one of our assistants and he\u2019ll be spending time with the Second Team as well. We\u2019re also going to give him some one-to-one coaching capacity, so he\u2019ll be working with our seamers and batters, as well as aiding Paul Tweddle with the fielding. We feel that he is an individual who\u2019s going to add value to our environment and hopefully we can help him develop as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Following his appointment, Trent said: \u201cI\u2019m thrilled to be joining Somerset. Obviously, they\u2019re the defending Vitality Blast champions and I\u2019m looking forward to getting straight into learning from Jason, the players and the wider club. Somerset is an amazing club and I\u2019m excited to be part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trent Keep joins the Coaching Team Former Australia A Coach, Trent Keep will be joining the coaching staff…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-653565","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\/653565","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=653565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}