WBBL: Coach Simon Helmot extends contract with Melbourne Renegades

WBBL: Coach Simon Helmot extends contract with Melbourne Renegades for at least two more seasons.

Melbourne Renegades today extended Simon Helmot’s contract as head coach of the franchise’s Women’s Big Bash League (WBBL) for the next two editions.

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Helmot extends contract with Melbourne Renegades

Simon brings vast international experience from major Twenty20 tournaments around the world.

The 50-year-old has held coaching roles in the Indian Premier League, Caribbean Premier League, Afghan Premier League, Bangladesh Premier League as well as the Big Bash League.

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Simon Helmot began his coaching career early–

Simon Helmot began his coaching career early, taking the reins of the Hawthorn-Waverley club in Melbourne at 25. While he was still a player. After retiring, Helmot took charge of the Under-19s at the Victorian Institute of Sport. And then spent two years coaching the ACT Comets in the Cricket Australia Cup. He returned to Melbourne in 2007 to take up a role as Victoria’s high-performance manager. And coached the Australia A side that visited India in 2008. Helmot became an assistant coach under Greg Shipperd at Victoria for the 2008-09 season.