Who had heard of him before this announcement?

Performance Director.

No I don't know either.

Terrible journalist and a rather unpleasant person.

BosworthBear wrote:

Always enjoy my trips to Edgbaston but I’m not too optimistic this year. Seems to be no sense of direction. Such a shame when Farbrace was here there seemed to be a clear future!

I felt Farbrace was doing good things with the pathway and academy and also strengthened links with the game at club level (his predecessor, Ashley Giles did none of this), however during that 2022 season, his final season, I felt the wheels came off with regards to our first team.

To be fair Kent have been decimated by injuries for a few seasons now. They've had some decent home grown batters come through though, Walker is an experienced batting coach and probably taking over at a good time as our batting group is pretty young but has a decent amount of experience already.

Great interview with Westwood that. Nice to have somebody in charge who appreciates the role as opposed to somebody who was increasingly seeming to find coaching us a chore. Which reflected on the field, the guys just didn't look like they were enjoying it.

Bald_Reynard wrote:

Andy wrote:

Ian Westwood in charge.

Temporary or he is the new Head Coach?

No idea, all sorts going it seems. Tony Frost replacing Keith Cook apparently.

Ian Westwood in charge.

7 weeks before the start of the new season. As reported by Dobell.

No DoC, no head coach now.

Cameron Green got injured then Mitch Marsh lost form (he looks done as a red ball player) hence Webster now in the side.

Yes he took a wicket with his off spin today.

Australia have announced a Test series away in the Caribbean starting end of June.

If he's selected this will affect Webster's availability as he's meant to be us until end of July...

Has signed

I'll be honest, I'd have probably moved on from him and looked elsewhere. He's on the slide.

More anti Birmingham rhetoric...

Latham should keep but I suspect he won't. Kai Smith needs to develop more with the gloves in my opinion.

Really good player who has transformed himself over the past 3 years from being a bit of a bits and pieces cricketer who batted 7 or 8 and bowled a few fill in overs to somebody capable of batting in the top 6 and a genuine change bowler. He's not express but he's quick enough to keep the opposition honest and he has height. Also has been known to bowl off spin. Think he's a fields in the slips too.

Does he have a CA contract? If so expect him to be pulled out of any deal with us at extremely short notice.

I've been banging this drum for ages. Things seemed to stall drastically in this regard when Gilo was at the helm. We're just not a county that backs locally developed cricketers and we do poach from other counties quite a fair bit. The bowlers situation is just embarrassing and the fact that we do not have a steady pipeline of homegrown seamers coming through means our hit and miss recruitment style gets exposed.

Re. Homegrown players, we have got better though, Yates, Mousley, Shaikh, Bethell, Hain (just), Woakes etc, all first teasers when available, generally.

Caught glimpses of him last year, he looked good, bit quicker than others around his age as far as I could tell, good action.

About time we started bringing on some homegrown seamers.

I think it's fair that Stuart Barnes did the chat on this as opposed to Robbo.

It's been pretty quiet all winter on social media from the club comparison to previous off seasons.

Called up by England Lions to tour Aus in January.