Graeme Hick appointed as Australian Coach

Sep 26 2013: Cricket Australia (CA) has today announced that former Zimbabwean and English batsman Graeme Hick has been appointed to the role of High Performance Coach to be based at the CA Centre of Excellence in Brisbane.

Hick fills the role vacated by former Australian Test player Stuart Law who took up the position as Head Coach at Queensland Cricket following Darren Lehmann’s departure in June to take up the Australian Men’s Team Head Coaching role.

Hick played for Zimbabwe from 1983-1985 before moving to England to pursue a career as a professional cricketer. He first played for England in 1991, playing 65 Tests before retiring in 2001.

In his 25 years playing First-Class cricket, Hick scored 136 centuries, 41,112 First-Class runs with an average of 52, before retiring from First-Class cricket in 2008.