Shane Deitz appointed as head coach of West Indies Women
Shane Deitz has stepped down as Netherlands Women’s head coach to take up the identical position with West Indies Women. Deitz will begin in his new position in late August, forward of the Women’s CPL, and the away collection in opposition to Australia in October might be his first project with the group.
Deitz, 48, is a former South Australia wicketkeeper-batter who performed 66 first-class matches between 1998 and 2008. He has additionally featured in 27 List A video games and two T20s. He has been into teaching for over a decade now, and was the pinnacle coach of the Bangladesh girls’s group in 2013-14. He takes over a West Indies group that made the semi-finals of the ODI World Cup in 2022 however did not make the knockouts of the T20 model earlier this 12 months.
“West Indies cricket both men and women have a great history of success whilst playing entertaining cricket and my aim is to continue with that formula,” Deitz mentioned. “The team has a great blend of world-class senior players and some talented younger players which is a good starting point to build from. We have a lot of work to do though as the reality is we are behind the top few sides in the world and we need to bridge that gap and become competitive again to challenge for World Cups in the future.
“I do consider although the nucleus is there to create a world-class aggressive aspect and that’s what I’ll goal to do. The commonplace of ladies’s cricket is at an all-time excessive and we have to attempt to succeed in these heights by way of good planning, a variety of exhausting work after which executing on the pitch.”
Deitz became the full-time coach of the Netherlands women’s team in March 2021, and under him, they regained one-day status. Their ODI ranking peaked at 12 and the T20I ranking at 18. Netherlands are currently preparing for a European qualification tournament for the 2025 ODI World Cup.
“Obviously the choice to go away the Netherlands Women’s group was extraordinarily powerful as I’ve cherished working with this group, they are surely an important bunch of women,” Deitz said. “The group has grown on and off the sphere and they’re in a extremely good place now to maintain pushing to qualify for a World Cup. I actually wish to thank the entire squad for his or her efforts and sacrifice they put in to get the group the place they’re.”
At West Indies, he replaces Courtney Walsh, whose contract was not renewed following a review of the team’s performance. The contracts of assistant coaches Robert Samuels and Corey Collymore were also not extended. Samuels, though, was appointed interim head coach for the ODIs and T20Is against Ireland, taking place over the past week, with Ryan Austin and Steve Liburd as his assistants. West Indies won both ODI and T20I series under this management.
Deitz’s appointment was confirmed on the CWI board of administrators assembly on June 30 on the Coolidge Cricket Ground in Antigua, and made public on July 8.