Moreeng to proceed as South Africa girls’s coach regardless of requires change
Hilton Moreeng will keep on as coach of the South African nationwide girls’s workforce, extending his tenure past 11 years. Moreeng has been in cost since 2012 and was anticipated to maneuver on after the house T20 World Cup, wherein South Africa reached the final, however will proceed for at the very least the 2023-24 season.
ESPNcricinfo understands {that a} group of gamers are sad with Moreeng’s continuance and a few of them took their complaints to Cricket South Africa by way of e mail. This transfer stems from what sources have referred to as a need to see a change within the teaching fashion following Moreeng’s prolonged tenure. However, the gamers have been unable to get CSA to see eye-to-eye with their considering and Moreeng has been rewarded for a string of fine outcomes which incorporates qualifying for the final two 50-over World Cup semi-finals and turning into the primary coach to take a senior South African workforce to a World Cup closing.
“It was never going to make sense not to extend (Moreeng’s deal) because of the back-to-back tours we have coming up now,” Pholetsi Moseki, CSA’s CEO instructed ESPNcricinfo.
Although South Africa haven’t performed for the reason that T20 World Cup in February, they’ve a full schedule over the subsequent few months, beginning with a visit to Pakistan in August. They will then return house to host New Zealand and now have visits from Bangladesh and Sri Lanka already penciled in on the Future Tours Programme (FTP) earlier than an all-format journey to Australia in early 2024. The time between the top of Moreeng’s contract in April and this season’s fixtures was deemed too brief to switch him. “It would have not been fair to ask a new person to take over and have only a month or so to prepare the team for the Pakistan series [which begins on September 1],” Moseki stated.
Instead, CSA has turned its consideration to creating a brand new place within the girls’s sport: head of girls’s cricket. Applications for the submit closed on July 14 and ESPNcricinfo understands that the method of finalising the appointment is ongoing. The head of girls’s cricket will report back to the present Director of Cricket, Enoch Nkwe, who has been in conferences with the ladies’s workforce administration this week.
At the time of writing, Nkwe was unavailable for remark.