{"id":670080,"date":"2026-05-14T09:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T09:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/670080\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T09:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T09:12:08","slug":"australia-news-andrew-flintoff-set-to-be-named-new-sydney-thunder-bbl-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/670080\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia news &#8211; Andrew Flintoff set to be named new Sydney Thunder BBL coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fltntoff&#8217;s only franchise experience as a coach is two seasons at Northern Superchargers in the Hundred in 2024 and 2025. He will not coach them in 2026 after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/story\/flintoff-to-part-ways-with-northern-superchargers-after-two-seasons-as-head-coach-1506168\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">failing to agree to terms with the franchise&#8217;s new Indian owners Sun Group<\/a> who have renamed the team Sunrisers Leeds. Superchargers finished fourth and third in Flintoff&#8217;s two seasons in charge. He revealed on the Beard Before Wicket podcast last October that he had never thought about coaching until then Superchargers director of cricket, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/story\/marcus-north-confirmed-as-england-men-s-new-national-selector-1536529\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">now England selector Marcus North<\/a>, rang him out of the blue to gauge his interest in doing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fltntoff&#8217;s only franchise experience as a coach is two seasons at Northern Superchargers in the Hundred in 2024&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":670081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,203020,740,12063,43,44,145550,85],"class_list":["post-670080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bulletin","tag-cricket","tag-daily","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-package","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670080","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=670080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}