Australia strengthen its coaching staff with two additions

The Australia Women's team which has a new interim head coach, Shelley Nitschke, will also have Jude Coleman from South Australia and Dan Marsh from Tasmania as part of its coaching group. The duo has been announced as support for Shelley to complete the new set-up in the backroom ahead of their tri-series in Ireland and then the Commonwealth games in Birmingham. The new appointments come in the wake of the assistant coach, Ben Sawyer, being appointed as the head coach of the New Zealand Women's national team. Coleman comes into the setup with extensive experience in Indoor cricket as well as serving as the assistant coach of South Australian Scorpions and the Adelaide Strikers in the Women's Big Bash League. Marsh is the assistant coach of the Tasmania Women's team. The duo also has experience working together with the successful Australia A team recently. "It's great to have coaches of such high calibre in the Australian system who we can call upon like we have with Jude and Dan," stated Ben Oliver, EGM of High Performance and National Teams, on Monday (June 6)ge. "Both have extensive coaching and playing experience and did a brilliant job with the Australia A team earlier this year, so we know they'll be of great assistance to Shelley, Meg and the team over the coming months."