Middlesex have appointed former New Zealand player Peter Fulton as men’s head coach. <\/p>\n
The 47-year-old, who played 23 Tests for his country, has agreed a three-year deal and joins from Canterbury.<\/p>\n
He comes in to replace Dane Vilas, who had been in interim charge of the county side<\/a> since Richard Johnson left last June<\/a>.<\/p>\n Fulton has been in charge of Canterbury since 2020 and led them to the Plunkett Shield – New Zealand’s equivalent of the County Championship – in his first year in charge.<\/p>\n Under his leadership, Canterbury have also won two domestic 50-over competitions and are currently second in the Plunkett Shield. <\/p>\n “I have always followed county cricket and wanted an opportunity to be a part of it,” Fulton said.<\/p>\n “The club has a rich history and I can’t wait to arrive and get to work on building a cricket team of which the club and supporters can continue to be very proud of.”<\/p>\n He takes over a Middlesex side that finished fourth in Division Two of the County Championship in 2025 and made the quarter-finals of the One Day Cup.<\/p>\n “After a thorough process with a number of high-quality candidates, Peter emerged as an ambitious, exciting and hugely talented coach, with a proven track record of success in New Zealand domestic cricket with Canterbury,” Middlesex director of cricket Alan Coleman said.<\/p>\n “Along with this, he has helped produce a number of Black Cap players from his teams \u2013 with producing international players a key ambition of the club over the coming seasons.<\/p>\n “I’d like to thank Canterbury Cricket for allowing an early release of Peter’s contract to allow him to join us for pre-season training. We look forward to welcoming Peter to Middlesex Cricket and Lord’s.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Middlesex have appointed former New Zealand player Peter Fulton as men’s head coach. The 47-year-old, who played 23…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-423544","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\/423544","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=423544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}