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Magoffin back at New Road as women's cricket chief

Worcester Editorial 4th Nov, 2018   0

FORMER Pears pace ace Steve Magoffin is back at Blackfinch New Road as lead coach and manager of the Worcestershire Women’s Rapids pathway programme.

Magoffin hung up his spikes last month after a distinguished career which brought him 597 first class wickets and ended with a second spell with Worcestershire.

Now he will oversee women’s cricket from Under-11s right through to the Rapids side with the aim of creating a pathway as successful as the one carved out for the county’s boys and men’s set-up by the late Damian D’Oliveira and now Elliot Wilson

It is the first steps for Magoffin towards his ambition of becoming a successful coach and a challenge he is relishing getting to grips with.




“The main part of my role is to oversee the whole programme from the youngest age to the seniors so we can have a good progression of girls coming through over the next few years to play for the senior team,” he said.

“There is a lot of hands on coaching I’m going to be able to do while the programme really kicks into gear into January.


“But it will also give me lots of other skills behind the scenes that this type of role entails – getting the programme set up, meeting all the coaches, finding out what they want and how they see their age groups moving forward.

Magoffin, whose head coach when a Sussex player, Mark Robinson, is now the England Women’s team head coach, said his experience in professional game would boost the programme.

“Women’s cricket is taking off in this country. I can imagine it is only going in one direction and, on the back of winning the World Cup, there is no bigger time in women’s cricket.

“It is something Worcestershire are trying to put a stamp on. Moving forward, they really want to try and professionalise the women’s set-up and to mirror the men’s programme and the boys pathway.

Worcestershire Cricket Board cricket development director, Tom Hill, said: “Steve is really keen and will bring a wealth of experience which will really help. He will mentor our younger coaches and kind of set the expectations for all of our players.

“He has got a lot to give, a lot to offer, and I’m really excited that he has taken this opportunity. It will be really good for him, good for the pathway and the girls and women who are part of it.

“It shows a statement of intent from us. We are serious about this. We want to be one of the best pathway programmes in the country and Steve will help us achieve that.”

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