{"id":159694,"date":"2020-04-09T09:41:25","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T07:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/devnarain-takes-up-sa-u19-and-academy-coaching-role-featured-durban-blog\/"},"modified":"2020-04-09T09:41:25","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T07:41:25","slug":"devnarain-takes-up-sa-u19-and-academy-coaching-role-featured-durban-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/devnarain-takes-up-sa-u19-and-academy-coaching-role-featured-durban-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Devnarain takes up SA U19 and Academy coaching role \u2013 Featured Durban Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Devnarain takes up SA U19 and Academy coaching role<\/a>: <\/p>\n

Durban \u2013 Current coach of the Hollywoodbets KZN Coastal Women\u2019s team Dinesha Devnarain has been appointed as the first full-time Women\u2019s Under-19s and Cricket South Africa (CSA) Women\u2019s National Academy head coach.<\/p>\n

The former Momentum Proteas star has spent her entire career with KZN Cricket and has been at the helm as a player and a coach for the better part of two decades and despite feeling excited by the opportunity she said she was emotional about leaving the province that she has dedicated so much of her life to.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had to tell the girls myself and not let them find out via social media so I broke the news to them on April Fool\u2019s Day and they thought that I was joking!\u201d Devnarain said. \u201cIt was not an easy decision for me as KZN Cricket is more like a family to me than a job but I knew that I had to move on for my career.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a massive stepping stone for me in my career and I am looking forward to hitting the ground running in June with the national academy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Having become such an important part of the set-up at KZN Cricket over the past two decades, Devnarain knew that it was time to move on despite the emotional attachment to the union.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think that there was anything else for me to do here \u2013 I had done all I could for these girls,\u201d she added candidly.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would like to think that I have left women\u2019s cricket in KZN in a better place than when I started here and I hope that whoever takes over will continue to grow the legacy and ethos of women\u2019s cricket here.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the current lockdown in place as a result of the coronavirus outbreak in South Africa, Devnarain has got some time to prepare for her first assignment which will be with the national academy in June.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were supposed to be playing an Under-19 tri-series with England and Australia and that would have been a really tough start, given that our national week in December was rained out so we didn\u2019t have much to go on!<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the COVID-19 outbreak that was cancelled and I can focus all my immediate attention on the national academy intake in a few months\u2019 time.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to do things differently and I feel that knowledge of the game is not where it should be.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want the girls to be as professional as possible when they go back to their provinces and be ambassadors of the game in their provinces when they leave the academy,\u201d she mentioned.<\/p>\n

According to the KZN Cricket Union CEO, Heinrich Strydom, one of the main goals of the KZN Cricket system is to produce world class players, coaches and administrators.<\/p>\n

\u201cDinesha\u2019s role in improving women\u2019s cricket in KZN has been unparalleled and we are sad to see her go,\u201d he said. \u201cHowever to see her moving into a national coaching role is hugely satisfying and we wish her all the best in her dual role with Cricket South Africa.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe has all the attributes needed to become one of South Africa and the world\u2019s best female coaches, and we will be following her journey with much anticipation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI know that the KZN players are devastated to see her go which is a testament to the fantastic work that she did with the provincial women\u2019s team.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Devnarain takes up SA U19 and Academy coaching role: Durban \u2013 Current coach of the Hollywoodbets KZN Coastal Women\u2019s team Dinesha Devnarain has been appointed as the first full-time Women\u2019s Under-19s and Cricket South Africa (CSA) Women\u2019s National Academy head coach. The former Momentum Proteas star has spent her entire career with KZN Cricket and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[8275,3335,953],"class_list":{"0":"post-159694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-durban","7":"tag-durban","8":"tag-mydurban-co-za","9":"tag-newspaper","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}