{"id":246082,"date":"2025-11-05T22:02:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T22:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/246082\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T22:02:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T22:02:14","slug":"fran-wilson-somersets-ex-england-batter-retires-to-be-gloucestershire-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/246082\/","title":{"rendered":"Fran Wilson: Somerset’s ex-England batter retires to be Gloucestershire coach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Somerset batter and England World Cup winner Fran Wilson has announced her retirement from cricket and will become Gloucestershire Women’s new head coach.<\/p>\n

The 33-year-old returned to Somerset in 2025 for a second spell, as the women’s side turned professional, and scored 574 runs in 28 matches.<\/p>\n

She previously played for the club between 2006 and 2014 and scored more than 2,500 runs in List A and T20 games.<\/p>\n

Wilson played 64 times for England across three formats and was part of the team that won the 2017 World Cup before she retired from international cricket<\/a> in 2021.<\/p>\n

“I have decided that the 2025 season was my last and that I will be hanging up my bat – for good this time,” Wilson told the Somerset website., external<\/a><\/p>\n

“What a ride it’s been, one that’s taken me to all corners of the globe with England and then in more recent times back to the West Country.<\/p>\n

“To have a locker in the changing room at the CACG [Somerset’s County Ground] was beyond my wildest dreams as a young player. <\/p>\n

“To know this opportunity is now normal for women is incredible and to have been a part of the growth of the game is something I take immense pride in.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Somerset batter and England World Cup winner Fran Wilson has announced her retirement from cricket and will become…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-246082","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\/246082","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=246082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}