{"id":173774,"date":"2025-10-01T22:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T22:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/173774\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T22:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T22:06:09","slug":"graeme-welch-warwickshire-reappoint-former-medium-pacer-as-bowling-coach-for-second-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/173774\/","title":{"rendered":"Graeme Welch: Warwickshire reappoint former medium-pacer as bowling coach for second time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Durham-born Welch took 477 wickets at an average of 31.51, in a first-class career with the Bears and Derbyshire that spanned 12 years before he began his coaching career at Chelmsford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This summer he helped guide Hampshire to Finals Day in the T20 Blast and also coached at Southern Brave as they finished fourth in the men&#8217;s Hundred.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve been fortunate to spend the last few years working across all formats of the game, learning from different environments, and adding new ideas to my coaching,&#8221; Welch <a href=\"https:\/\/edgbaston.com\/news\/graeme-welch-to-join-warwickshire-as-new-bowling-coach\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Coming back to Warwickshire, my focus is on raising performance levels in the First XI while at the same time developing the young, talented bowlers we&#8217;ve got coming through. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This club has always meant a lot to me, and I&#8217;m excited to contribute to building a bowling group that can succeed now and in the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Durham-born Welch took 477 wickets at an average of 31.51, in a first-class career with the Bears and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-173774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}