{"id":9642,"date":"2008-10-24T12:41:06","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T12:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/10\/24\/pakistan-spin-ace-lands-england-role\/"},"modified":"2008-10-24T12:41:06","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T12:41:06","slug":"pakistan-spin-ace-lands-england-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/24\/pakistan-spin-ace-lands-england-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan spin ace lands England role"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mushtaq Ahmed new ECB spin-bowling coach<\/h3>\n
\"\"PAKISTAN spinner Mushtaq Ahmed has been appointed spin-bowling coach for England.<\/strong><\/div>\n

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The 38-year-old former Pakistan and Sussex leg-spinner will work for the England Cricket Board on a consultancy basis and his role will include working with the spinners in the England Test and one-day squads, the England Performance Programme and Elite Player Development programmes.<\/div>\n

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Mushtaq, who was part of Bob Woolmer\u2019s coaching set up at the last World Cup, was forced into retirement this year with Sussex following a persistent knee injury.<\/div>\n

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The spinner spent some time working with England coach Peter Moores who revealed he was keen to get into coaching.<\/div>\n

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“Mushy is passionate at some stage to coach and pass on the information he’s gained over the last 20 years,” said Moores.<\/div>\n

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“There are certain people who can be helped to develop a certain clarity of thought. Mushy has that ability.”<\/div>\n

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David Parsons, the ECB performance director and formerly ECB lead spin bowling coach said: We are very excited that a bowler of Mushtaq\u2019s standing within the game has decided to join our team of specialist coaches based at the National Cricket Performance Centre at Loughborough.<\/div>\n

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\u201cHe will have a role to play at all levels of the game. His primary task will be to mentor our leading spin bowlers in the Test, one-day and performance squads but we also believe he can help encourage youngsters at the grassroots of the game to take up and learn the art of spin-bowling.\u201d<\/div>\n

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ECB managing director – England cricket Hugh Morris added: \u201cIt\u2019s critical that we nurture and develop the next generation of England spin bowlers using the expertise and knowledge of former players such as Mushtaq.<\/div>\n

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“Spin has been integral to the success of the world\u2019s best cricket teams and we are keen to ensure that there is a constant flow of spin-bowling talent into the England set-up.\u201d<\/div>\n

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Mushtaq Ahmed new ECB spin-bowling coach PAKISTAN spinner Mushtaq Ahmed has been appointed spin-bowling coach for England. The 38-year-old former Pakistan and Sussex leg-spinner will work for the England Cricket Board on a consultancy basis and his role will include working with the spinners in the England Test and one-day squads, the England Performance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}