{"id":785826,"date":"2026-09-29T00:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T00:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/785826\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T00:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T00:40:09","slug":"ireland-appoint-ed-joyce-as-high-performance-batting-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/785826\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland appoint Ed Joyce as high performance batting coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cricinfo.com\/team\/ireland-29\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ireland<\/a> have appointed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cricinfo.com\/cricketers\/ed-joyce-24249\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ed Joyce<\/a> as high performance batting coach. He begins his role immediately and will coach the senior men&#8217;s team, as well as being involved with their male talent pathway.Joyce, who played international cricket for both Ireland and England, retired as a player in 2018. Soon after, he joined the Ireland women&#8217;s team as their head coach. He stayed in that role for almost six years before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cricinfo.com\/story\/ed-joyce-step-down-ireland-women-head-coach-1473011\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he resigned in April 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He has since worked as a batting coach at Gloucestershire in county cricket and for Dublin Guardians in the ETPL, as well as working as a broadcaster.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Once I retired from playing, staying involved in Irish cricket was a high priority for me,&#8221; Joyce said in a statement. &#8220;When I look at the Ireland men&#8217;s side over recent years, it&#8217;s obvious to see the amount of hard work that has gone on behind the scenes in preparing our players to be competitive on the international stage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I look forward to getting involved in this work and perhaps adding some insights and knowledge to push the batting group forward. The talent is there, the goal is now consistency.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Joyce will work alongside Gary Wilson, the head coach of the men&#8217;s team, and Graeme West, the high performance director. The senior team&#8217;s last action was their five-match ODI series against Afghanistan at home in August, which they lost 4-0. Their next big assignment is the 2027 ODI World Cup Qualifier, which will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cricinfo.com\/story\/world-cup-2027-qualifier-set-to-be-played-from-february-22-to-march-23-1548740\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">played from February 22 to March 23<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland have appointed Ed Joyce as high performance batting coach. He begins his role immediately and will coach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[132648,1721,36623,49,50,132647,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-785826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-bulletin","tag-cricket","tag-daily","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-package","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785826","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=785826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}