Former New Zealand Girls’s captain Amy Satterthwaite has joined the Adelaide Strikers as their assistant coach for the forthcoming Girls’s Massive Bash League (WBBL) season.

Notably, Satterthwaite bid farewell to worldwide cricket in Could earlier this yr. She is White Ferns’ most capped ladies’s ODI participant with 145 matches and has scored 6,423 runs and picked up 76 wickets for her nation.

This will probably be Satterthwaite’s first time as coach of knowledgeable cricket aspect, although she has served as a mentor to the Canterbury workforce within the New Zealand home circuit. Satterthwaite has been a star on the WBBL as nicely, having amassed nearly 1,500 runs and brought 44 wickets, together with a hat-trick for Hobart Hurricanes within the second yr of the match.

“The WBBL is such a high quality competitors and one which I’ve been lucky to play in through the years. I completely cherished my time on the sphere taking part in with and in opposition to a number of the finest on this planet, and I do know the usual of the native expertise is extraordinarily excessive,” mentioned Satterthwaite as quoted by Adelaidestrikers.com.au.

“I’ve at all times had nice respect for the Adelaide Strikers; they’ve at all times been a aggressive franchise, and the squad seems to be sturdy once more this season after an excellent efficiency final yr. Hopefully I can convey a recent perspective to the teaching group and lean on my expertise to assist the workforce go that subsequent step this summer time,” she added.

The upcoming eighth season of the WBBL will begin on October 13, with the Strikers starting their marketing campaign two days later in opposition to Sydney Sixers in Mackay. On the appointment of Satterthwaite, Strikers Head Coach Luke Williams mentioned the White Ferns cricketer was a welcome addition to the teaching group.

“Amy has achieved a lot all through her taking part in profession, and she or he brings pure management qualities that will probably be extraordinarily precious to our workforce. She has a terrific cricket thoughts, is aware of this competitors higher than most and can actually have the ability to join with our gamers each on and off the sphere. We will’t wait to welcome her to Adelaide,” mentioned Williams.