{"id":582045,"date":"2026-05-13T17:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/582045\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T17:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:02:12","slug":"sarah-taylor-former-wicketkeeper-named-england-fielding-coach-in-landmark-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/582045\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Taylor: Former wicketkeeper named England fielding coach in landmark appointment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Taylor’s chance comes with Carl Hopkinson, who returned to the England set-up in white-ball cricket earlier this year, currently at the Indian Premier League with Mumbai Indians.<\/p>\n

Key suggested both he and Taylor will continue to work with the team in the future.<\/p>\n

Speaking to BBC Sport last winter, Taylor said: “I still am not someone who wants the limelight, I just want to be good at my job. That’s how I want to go about my coaching really.<\/p>\n

“I love being a trailblazer but without the attention. I want to see how far I can go, and work with some of the best players that I can.”<\/p>\n

Other significant female appointments in men’s sport have included Marie-Louise Eta, who was named interim boss of Bundesliga football team Union Berlin<\/a> in April, Hannah Dingley’s brief stint as Forest Green caretaker manager in 2023<\/a> and former British tennis number one Andy Murray, who employed Amelie Mauresmo from 2014 to 2016.<\/p>\n

England’s first Test against New Zealand begins at Lord’s on 4 June and it is their first in the format since their dismal Ashes defeat.<\/p>\n

Amid accusations of the set-up being too slack, England did not have a fielding coach on their staff in Australia, something that came under intense scrutiny when they dropped catches at crucial times.<\/p>\n

That campaign, which also included discussion around allegations of excessive drinking of alcohol<\/a>, brought into question the professionalism of the team set-up, their tactical approach and the futures of Key and coach Brendon McCullum.<\/p>\n

A curfew that was introduced for the white-ball tour of Sri Lanka in January will remain in place for the New Zealand series.<\/p>\n

McCullum, who has taken time off since the end of the T20 World Cup in March, will be present when the first-Test squad meets for a three-day training camp in Loughborough from 25 May. <\/p>\n

It includes bowler Ollie Robinson and uncapped trio James Rew, Emilio Gay and Sonny Baker.<\/p>\n

Former New Zealand bowler Tim Southee will not be at the camp but will return as bowling coach for the series against his former side.<\/p>\n

Asked what will change in the set-up, given both he and McCullum remain in their posts, Key said: “What we want is to have players to go out and play their best game. <\/p>\n

“It doesn’t mean there’s one way of playing, where you go out and play shots. <\/p>\n

“I spoke to Emilio Gay this morning and said ‘go and play your best game don’t worry about anything else’. <\/p>\n

“Work out how you are going to take on that bowling attack at Lord’s, work out conditions and your best way to score. The same for everyone else. <\/p>\n

“You do not want to see what has made Harry Brook go to number one in the world change. You just want him to refine.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taylor’s chance comes with Carl Hopkinson, who returned to the England set-up in white-ball cricket earlier this year,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-582045","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\/582045","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=582045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}