Watson, 49, loved an in depth home profession in South Africa and has beforehand held teaching roles with Mumbai Indians, Wellington, Kwa-Zulu Natal Inland and Namibia. He has been Auckland’s coach since June 2022 and stepped in as New Zealand’s batting coach throughout their current drawn Check sequence towards England.
Watson’s contract will run from April 8-July 31. The worldwide qualifier for the 2023 ODI World Cup might be held in Zimbabwe in June-July, whereas the European qualifier for the 2024 T20 World Cup takes place in Edinburgh in late July.
“I am actually grateful to everybody at Auckland Cricket for permitting me to pursue this chance with Cricket Scotland,” Watson mentioned. “It is a great likelihood for me to educate one other nation, and Scotland’s Males have been doing very well during the last 4 years.
“I do know it is clearly a brief time frame that I will be in cost, however there’s two large tournaments developing which might be robust for us, particularly the Cricket World Cup Qualifier in Zimbabwe in June. But it surely’s additionally an thrilling time as nicely – I am trying ahead to it and it will be enjoyable.”
“We carried out a really thorough hiring course of and checked out round forty-five candidates,” Toby Bailey, Cricket Scotland’s interim head of efficiency, mentioned. “We wished somebody who’d been beforehand concerned with teaching smaller groups, with affiliate cricket, with expertise of World Cup Qualifying competitions, with data of top-level cricket, and with expertise of Zimbabwe.
“Doug actually match the invoice in all these instances. We had a few of the males’s gamers on the interview panel, which I feel was actually essential for them to be concerned with, in order that that they had some buy-in as to who might be teaching them for the subsequent 4 months. The Auckland Aces have an excellent teaching system, and a testomony to that’s Doug’s current involvement with the Black Caps within the sequence towards England.”