David Houghton has agreed to become Middlesex’s new batting coach to replace Mark Ramprakash who, after two years at the club, last week became England’s batting coach.
Houghton has signed a two year contract with Middlesex, which will officially start on 1 January 2015 when his commitments with Somerset end. Houghton, 57, is widely considered to be one of the best batsmen Zimbabwe has produced. He played 22 Tests for Zimbabwe, scoring four hundreds and four half centuries. His top score was 266 against Sri Lanka in 1994/95 and he finished his international career with a batting average of 43.
Since retiring as a player Houghton has coached the Zimbabwe national side. He has also been Head Coach at Worcestershire and Director of Cricket at Derbyshire. At Somerset he held the position of batting coach.
“I am absolutely delighted to be joining the coaching team at Middlesex and am really looking forward to getting started and building on the great work already undertaken by the club’s previous batting coach, Mark Ramprakash,” Houghton commented. “I am joining an already impressive and well established coaching unit at Middlesex and look forward to working closely with both Richard Scott and Richard Johnson to contribute to the club’s desire to secure silverware in the near future. We have a fantastic group of talented and gifted cricketers here at Middlesex and I can’t wait to begin working with them all.”
Middlesex’s managing director of cricket, Angus Fraser, said, “We are delighted that David has agreed to join Middlesex CCC and everyone at the club is looking forward to working with him. As well as being an excellent batting coach David has a wealth of knowledge that we can tap in to.”
“David is a real cricket man. He loves being around and talking about the game and having spent time coaching at Radlett CC he knows the area and what Middlesex CCC is about. His coaching time will be split over the whole club. David will spend time working with players from Middlesex CCC’s 1st XI, 2nd XI, Academy and youth sides.”
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