Surrey head coach Gareth Batty has stepped down to join Indian Premier League side Chennai Super Kings as an assistant coach.<\/p>\n
Batty led Surrey to three consecutive County Championship titles<\/a> in his first three seasons in charge and twice guided them to T20 Finals Day. <\/p>\n “Thank you hardly seems enough for all that Surrey has meant to me,” the former England spinner told the club’s website, external<\/a>.<\/p>\n “The new journey is a very exciting one for my family and I, and I’m looking forward to getting going.”<\/p>\n Batty’s departure ends a 21-year association with Surrey. <\/p>\n He had two spells as a player, the first from 1998 to 2001 after leaving Yorkshire. He then spent seven seasons at Worcestershire before returning to The Oval in 2010. <\/p>\n Batty was club captain between 2015 and 2017, and in total played more than 350 times for Surrey, taking more than 500 wickets across all formats.<\/p>\n Batty, who played nine Tests for England, retired in 2021 and immediately joined Surrey’s coaching staff.<\/p>\n After he was appointed head coach in 2022<\/a>, Surrey became the first team in nearly 60 years to win three County Championship titles in a row.<\/p>\n “It is difficult to put into words just how much Gareth Batty has given to Surrey County Cricket Club, both as a player and as head coach,” director of cricket Alec Stewart said. <\/p>\n “I have known and worked with Gareth for many years and throughout that time he has shown an outstanding commitment to this club.<\/p>\n “While we are sorry to see him go, I understand that this opportunity was too good for him to pass up on and will enable him to spend more time with his family outside of the IPL season.”<\/p>\n Three of the 10 teams who will play in Division One of the County Championship next season are now without a head coach, after Glamorgan’s Richard Dawson joined the England set-up<\/a> and newly-promoted Durham’s Ryan Campbell moved upstairs to become the club’s director of cricket.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surrey head coach Gareth Batty has stepped down to join Indian Premier League side Chennai Super Kings as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-814529","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\/814529","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=814529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}