Shane Jurgensen

Shane Jurgensen
Personal information
Full name Shane John Jurgensen
Born (1976-04-28) 28 April 1976
Redcliffe, Queensland, Australia
Height 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2003/042006/07 Queensland
2000/012002/03 Tasmania
1999 Sussex Cricket Board
1998/99 Western Australia
Career statistics
Competition FC LA
Matches 23 14
Runs scored 251 8
Batting average 11.40 4.00
100s/50s /1 /
Top score 56 4
Balls bowled 4,644 658
Wickets 70 8
Bowling average 30.42 68.37
5 wickets in innings 4
10 wickets in match 2
Best bowling 6/65 2/31
Catches/stumpings 3/ 1/
Source: Cricinfo, 4 January 2011

Shane John Jurgensen (born 28 April 1976 in Redcliffe, Queensland) is a former Australian cricketer. He has played for Queensland, but has also played for Western Australia, Tasmania, and the Sussex Cricket Board in English county cricket.

Playing Career

He was talented fast bowler who rose to prominence on the Queensland club scene in the early 1990s, Jurgensen failed to find a place in his home state's side due to the strength of their bowling attack. He moved to Western Australia cricket team, where he managed to make his first class debut. After a couple of seasons with Western Australia, he again moved, this time south to Tasmania cricket team, where he played some of his best cricket for state, including a hat-trick against New South Wales, and a record 11 wickets in the 2002-03 Pura Cup final against his home side, Queensland cricket team.

Following his success with Tasmania cricket team, he returned to Queensland cricket team, finally fulfilling his dream of representing his home state. However, he failed to get regular call-ups for the state, and missed all of the 2005-06 season, although still retained his state contract.

Coaching Career

New Zealand

Jurgensen was New Zealand's bowling coach between 2008 and 2010 and was also a coach of New Zealand Cricket's high performance programme.

In February 2016, he was appointed as bowling coach of New Zealand cricket team for 2016 ICC World Twenty20 in India, New Zealand tour of Zimbabwe and New Zealand tour of South Africa.[1]

Bangladesh

He was appointed as the Bowling Coach for the Bangladesh National Side in October 2011. Before joining Bangladesh team he worked as a bowling coach for New Zealand between 2008 and 2010. After the main coach of Bangladesh Richard Pybus left the team in October 2012, he was appointed as interim head coach of Bangladesh. During his first assignment, Bangladesh beat the West Indies by 3-2 in ODI. They however suffered loss in test series by 2-0.

In February 2013 Bangladesh Cricket Board confirmed him as the head coach of the Bangladesh. Under his guidance, Bangladesh white washed New Zealand 3-0 in the ODI series when New Zealand came to visit Bangladesh in October 2013. The test series was drawn 0-0. New Zealand won the one off T-20 match.

In April 2014, he resigned from his position less than a month after the 2014 ICC World Twenty20 where his team performed very bad. During his tenure, Bangladesh won a Test match after four years against Zimbabwe cricket team and drew Tests against Sri Lanka cricket team in Galle and against New Zealand at home. [2]

Fiji

He was named coach of Fiji cricket team in May 2014. He was in charge of the country's senior men's, women's and under-19s team for next three years. [3]

In February 2015, Fiji national under-19 cricket team had qualified for their first World Cup in Bangladesh in 2016. This was first-time that Fiji had qualified for any ICC's major event. They were unbeaten during the group stage of the 2015 EAP Under-19 Cricket Trophy.

Scotland

Jurgensen was roped in by Cricket Scotland as a consultant just before 2015 Cricket World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. He consulted Scotland cricket team only for that one game against Bangladesh cricket team.

Rangpur

He was appointed by Rangpur Riders as their head coach for the BPL's third season. His team came third in the tournament with seven win in 10 matches.[4][5]

References

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