New coach for Pakistan women’s cricket team

The Pakistan women’s cricket team has hired a former Bermudian international player as its next coach.

David Hemp will become the second foreign coach to work with the team, replacing New Zealander Mark Coles, who stepped down from his role last year citing family reasons.

Hemp represented Bermuda in 22 one-day internationals from 2006 to 2009, scoring 641 runs with a century and four half-centuries

Pakistani former first-class player Iqbal Imam served as interim coach before Pakistan Cricket Board settled on Hemp, AFP reported.

Hemp “brings with him a wealth of experience and knowledge, more importantly around women’s cricket development, which is extremely critical to our strategy,” Urooj Mumtaz, head of the Pakistan Cricket Board’s women’s wing, was quoted as saying in the AFP report.

Hemp, who currently lives in Australia, has for the past five years coached cricket teams in the country’s Women’s Big Bash League and is a former captain of Bermuda’s national side and Glamorgan County Cricket Club in Wales.