Jon Lewis named as England women's head coach

Former England men's seamer Jon Lewis has been named arsenic the caller England women's caput coach.

Lewis, who won 16 caps crossed 3 formats, has worked arsenic bowling manager with the England men's side.

He volition instrumentality complaint for the women's circuit of West Indies, which begins connected 4 December.

The 3 one-day internationals and 5 T20s successful the Caribbean volition service arsenic mentation for the T20 World Cup successful South Africa aboriginal adjacent year.

"It's a caller challenge, and 1 that I can't hold to get stuck into," Lewis said.

"I've watched from a region implicit the past fewer years and it's wide that determination are a batch of reasons to beryllium optimistic astir this team's chances going forward."

Lewis worked with England's men nether Chris Silverwood and astir precocious Brendon McCullum successful the past summer.

He has been with the England Lions squad connected their ongoing grooming campy successful Dubai.

Lewis bushed contention from namesake Jon Lewis, the erstwhile Durham coach, and Australian Ashley Noffke to onshore the England women's role.

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