The North Otago Cricket Association will be employing two professional coaches in the 2010-11 season.
Richard Turner, a 25-year-old Englishman, will be coaching and playing for the St Kevin's College First XI, while Sean Eathorne will be at Waitaki Boys' High School playing and coaching the First XI.
Turner has captained the Fulwood and Broughton cricket club for the past three seasons and is a top-order batsman and a medium-fast bowler. He has completed a BA with honours at Lancashire University and is a level two qualified ECB coach.
Eathorne has played his club cricket in Dunedin, last season captaining the Carisbrook-Dunedin premier team. He represented New Zealand at under-19 level and has been a fringe player for the Otago Volts for the past three seasons.
Eathorne represented North Otago in the Hawke Cup round-robin and challenge fixtures, scoring two centuries. Over the winter he has been playing cricket for the Sparta Sports Club in Rotterdam along with North Otago player Sean Conlan.
Hawke Cup champion North Otago's first zone round-robin fixture is against South Canterbury in Timaru on the last weekend in November.
- Terry O'Neill
