Cricket Scotland: Doug Watson announced as the Interim Head Coach Men’s squad

Cricket Scotland is delighted to announce Doug Watson as the Interim Head Coach of the Scotland Men’s squad.

Doug Watson will start work with Cricket Scotland on April 8 :-

Doug, who’s currently Head Coach of Male Performance with the Auckland Aces, will start work with Cricket Scotland on April 8 and is contracted until July 31.

During his period as Interim Men’s Head Coach, Scotland will compete in the 2023 Cricket World Cup Qualifier in Zimbabwe and in the 2024 World T20 Europe Qualifiers, which are being held this July in Edinburgh.

Doug Watson said :-

“Firstly, I’m really thankful to everyone at Auckland Cricket for allowing me to pursue this opportunity with Cricket Scotland,” said Doug. “It’s a wonderful chance for me to coach another country, and Scotland’s Men have been doing really well over the last four years.

“I’m looking forward to carrying on and develop the great work that Shane Burger has put in here. I know Shane well, he’s worked really hard to help get Scotland to where they are, and it was great to see them lift the CWCL2 trophy last week in Nepal.

“I know it’s obviously a short period of time that I’ll be in charge, but there’s two massive tournaments coming up which will be tough for us, especially the Cricket World Cup Qualifier in Zimbabwe in June. But it’s also an exciting time as well – I’m looking forward to it and it’s going to be fun.”

Just last month, Doug stepped in as Batting Coach for the New Zealand Men’s Test squad during their recent series against England.

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Interim Head of Performance, Toby Bailey, said :-

“I’m delighted to welcome Doug to Cricket Scotland.

“We conducted a very thorough hiring process and looked at around forty-five candidates. We wanted someone who’d been previously involved with coaching smaller teams, with Associate Cricket, with experience of World Cup Qualifying competitions, with knowledge of top-level cricket, and with experience of Zimbabwe.

“Doug really fit the bill in all those cases. We had some of the Men’s players on the interview panel, which I think was really important for them to be involved with, so that they had some buy-in as to who will be coaching them for the next four months.

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