Ex-england Batter Wilson Retires To Become Coach

Somerset batter and England World Cup victor Fran Wilson has announced her status from cricket and will go Gloucestershire Women's caller caput coach.

The 33-year-old returned to Somerset successful 2025 for a 2nd spell, arsenic nan women's broadside turned professional, and scored 574 runs successful 28 matches.

She antecedently played for nan nine betwixt 2006 and 2014 and scored much than 2,500 runs successful List A and T20 games.

Wilson played 64 times for England crossed 3 formats and was portion of nan squad that won nan 2017 World Cup earlier she retired from world cricket successful 2021.

"I person decided that nan 2025 play was my past and that I will beryllium hanging up my bat - for bully this time," Wilson told nan Somerset website., external

"What a thrust it's been, 1 that's taken maine to each corners of nan globe pinch England and past successful much caller times backmost to nan West Country.

"To person a locker successful nan changing room astatine nan CACG [Somerset's County Ground] was beyond my wildest dreams arsenic a young player.

"To cognize this opportunity is now normal for women is unthinkable and to person been a portion of nan maturation of nan crippled is thing I return immense pridefulness in."

Gloucestershire was 1 of 10 clubs fixed Tier 2 position by nan English and Wales Cricket Board for 2025.

They vanished bottommost of nan South group pinch 1 triumph successful 8 games successful nan Vitality Blast 2 this play and 5th successful nan One-Day Cup women's convention 2 table, pinch 5 wins retired of 9 matches.

Wilson said nan extremity was to build "sustainable success" to let nan nine to move up to Tier 1 status.

"I've done a batch of coaching alongside playing complete nan past 5 aliases six years, but it's really breathtaking to measurement into that travel fully, particularly pinch Gloucestershire, a awesome nine that I've been progressive pinch for a agelong time," Wilson said.

Wilson made her England debut successful 2010 aged 19 but it was not until 2016 that she became a regular successful nan world squad.

During nan 50-over World Cup triumph successful 2017, she played successful 8 of England's 9 matches including nan last against India.

She was besides portion of nan squad that reached nan T20 World Cup semi-finals successful 2020.

Domestically, Wilson won nan Kia Super League title doubly pinch Western Storm and has besides represented Sunrisers, Kent and Gloucestershire and played successful 4 editions of The Hundred.

Somerset head of cricket Andy Hurry said Wilson had near a "lasting mark" connected nan women's game.

"Ahead of her now is an astonishing opportunity to tie from each that acquisition arsenic she takes nan adjacent measurement connected her journey," he added.

"On behalf of each nan players and unit some present astatine Somerset CCC and crossed nan game, we would for illustration to return this opportunity to recognise her achievements and convey her for her contributions and committedness some connected and disconnected nan field, and for each nan lasting memories she has fixed america all."