{"id":410948,"date":"2026-02-06T09:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T09:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/410948\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T09:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T09:48:08","slug":"lancashire-ex-england-bowler-kabir-ali-named-new-bowling-coach-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/410948\/","title":{"rendered":"Lancashire: Ex-England bowler Kabir Ali named new bowling coach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lancashire have named former England bowler Kabir Ali as their new lead bowling coach.<\/p>\n

Now 45, Ali played one Test and 14 One-Day Internationals for England between 2003 and 2006.<\/p>\n

At county level, he played for Worcestershire, Hampshire and then had two seasons with Lancashire to round off his career.<\/p>\n

Since then, he has coached around the world most notably for three seasons at Yorkshire<\/a> as assistant to head coach Otis Gibson and then last year as lead bowling coach for Warwickshire’s women’s team.<\/p>\n

“I’m incredibly excited to be back at Lancashire in this new role,” he told the club’s website., external<\/a><\/p>\n

“It’s a great challenge to help shape our bowling group, and equally important to support the development of the next generation of fast bowlers coming through our pathway.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lancashire have named former England bowler Kabir Ali as their new lead bowling coach. Now 45, Ali played…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-410948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410948","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=410948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}