David Harrison, Glamorgan's performance analyst and assistant coach, is playing a key role in a ground-breaking winter training camp for the game's brightest young female pace bowlers in South Africa.
Harrison has been appointed to the coaching staff of a fast bowling development camp at the High Performance Institute of Sport in Potchefstroom - where the male England bowlers have relished the opportunities provided by high-altitude, warm-weather winter training for a while, and the England Lions were due to play their latest one-day match against South Africa A on Saturday, only for rain to intervene.
He's been a great addition to the wider coaching group across the whole programme, explained Jonathan Finch, the high performance manager for women's and girls cricket in England and Wales. He's involved full-time coaching with Glamorgan so to have that level of experience is a real boost for us. He's a very positive character to have around the group.
I'm really enjoying it, said Harrison, before joining a training session on the Potchefstroom outfield. Working with the girls is very different to what I do at Glamorgan, and the contrast works well.
There are 10 girls on the camp, aged from 15 to 23, from all parts of England, all of whom have been identified as potential successors to Katherine Brunt, Anya Shrubsole and Kate Cross, the three senior fast bowlers in the England team who have arrived in New Zealand ahead of three ICC Women's Championship matches. Harrison is due back in Cardiff at the end of the week.
England Women take on Australia Women in Cardiff as part of an IT20 double-header with their male counterparts at the SWALEC Stadium on Bank Holiday Monday (31st August).
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