Lauren Rowles, the current Head Coach of Devon Women, has been appointed by Cricket Ireland as its new National Women\u2019s Selector and will attend her first Ireland Women\u2019s match in the role on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Rowles, 33, started playing at age 16 for Gloucestershire, then spent time with Worcestershire, Derbyshire and Staffordshire before finishing her playing career in 2022.<\/p>\n
She has been in coaching and leadership roles within cricket since she was 16 years of age. In February 2025, she was appointed the Women\u2019s Head Coach of Gloucestershire County Cricket Club \u2013 at the time she was the youngest head coach ever appointed to a head coach role in the County system.<\/p>\n
Currently, Rowles heads up Devon Women\u2019s programme and is the England Mixed Disability support coach.<\/p>\n
An ECB Specialist Coach (Level 4), she has extensive experience in the talent identification and talent development areas and will be in attendance at the 3rd ODI of the current series between Ireland Women and West Indies Women at Bready Cricket Club.<\/p>\n
Graeme West, Director of High Performance at Cricket Ireland, said:<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are delighted to have engaged Lauren in the lead selector role and I look forward to working with her closely. Based on her previous and current experiences within high performing environments, I expect her to challenge our current Talent Identification and Talent Development methods, finding ways to improve the High Performance Pathway and to increase the depth of the talent pool in Ireland.<\/p>\n
\u201cLauren\u2019s introduction coincides with the start of two new cycles within the women\u2019s programme. Firstly, the start of the new ICC Women\u2019s Championship cycle \u2013 a platform that offers competing nations the opportunity to qualify automatically for the 2029 50-over Women\u2019s Cricket World Cup. Secondly, with the 2026 ICC Women\u2019s T20 World Cup finishing earlier this month, we have now moved into the new two-year cycle ahead of the 2028 edition of the tournament.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe role will be busy one \u2013 combining squad selection with identification of talent and working with the Talent Pathway systems around Ireland. In addition, Lauren will actively seek to increase playing and training opportunities for Irish talent in England.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lauren Rowles said:<\/p>\n
\u201cI am very thankful to Cricket Ireland for entrusting me with this important role \u2013 one that not only deals with the \u2018here and now\u2019 but also looks ahead to the future of the women\u2019s programme in Ireland. My view is that talent identification and management within a high performance environment requires focus and leadership, but also an openness and willingness to work with existing regional structures in a collaborative and inclusive manner.<\/p>\n
\u201cOver recent years, I have watched Ireland demonstrate a dynamic approach to redesigning its women\u2019s programme \u2013 investing in its female pathway programmes, support structures around the senior squad and through professional contracts. I look forward to being involved in this work and getting to know many of the talented female cricketers across Ireland.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lauren Rowles, the current Head Coach of Devon Women, has been appointed by Cricket Ireland as its new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-692406","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\/692406","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=692406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}