Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Mickey Arthur takes ‘hands-off’ function as Northern Superchargers director of cricket

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Mickey Arthur, Derbyshire’s head of cricket, is ready to mix his duties on the membership with a brand new function as director of cricket at Northern Superchargers.

Derbyshire completed rock-bottom of the County Championship in 2024, with one win in 14 matches in Division Two, and failed to succeed in the knock-outs in both the T20 Blast or the Metro Financial institution One-Day Cup.

Nonetheless, Arthur’s managerial expertise, which features a latest stint as Pakistan’s group director, has confirmed engaging to Superchargers, the place he’ll work alongside the lads’s and girls’s head coaches, Andrew Flintoff and Lisa Keightley.

He’ll advise the Hundred groups on recruitment and provide help to the top coaches, however Derbyshire insist his function at Superchargers might be “largely hands-off”. He’ll stay with the county through the Metro Financial institution One-Day Cup which runs concurrently to the Hundred.

“Derbyshire stays my main focus and I am dedicated to attaining our targets of bringing success to the membership,” Arthur mentioned. “We encourage all of our gamers and coaches to develop their expertise in new environments and that is one other instance of that.

“As a membership, our personnel are in demand and that is a testomony to the work being carried out behind the scenes, and we’re assured outcomes will quickly come on-field.”

Ryan Duckett, Derbyshire’s chief government, added: “Mickey stays totally dedicated to Derbyshire, he lives and breathes the membership and we hope that he can use this chance to showcase the standard Derbyshire has.

“It has been a constructive winter, with Mickey, Wayne [Madsen] and Zak [Chappell] lifting silverware abroad, whereas Harry Moore and Pat Brown have represented us inside the England setup not too long ago.

“Our squad has been working exhausting over the winter, and it will ramp up even additional over the following couple of months to provide us the very best probability of success in 2025, with an thrilling summer season forward.”


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