Meanwhile, Richard Holdsworth has announced he is to step down as director of cricket with Cricket Ireland.<\/p>\n
Holdsworth first arrived at Cricket Ireland in 2011, spending 13 years as high performance director before taking up the director of cricket role two years ago.<\/p>\n
During his tenure, Holdsworth played a key role in building and professionalising Ireland’s elite cricket systems, including overseeing the development and implementation of central player contracts across men’s and women’s programmes.<\/p>\n
He was also central in the transition from associate member to a full member of the International Cricket Council in 2017 with Ireland’s men achieving Test status in the same year, while supporting the reintroduction of the domestic men’s inter-provincial series and women’s super series.<\/p>\n
“I’m incredibly proud of what we have achieved together working with a team of outstanding staff,” Holdsworth said.<\/p>\n
“From our collective efforts to professionalise structures and support players at the highest level, to seeing Ireland compete with distinction on the global stage \u2014 it has been a privilege to be part of this journey.<\/p>\n
“Cricket Ireland will soon welcome a new chief executive officer, further marking a transition to the next phase of the organisation’s strategic growth and ambition, and I wish Sarah [Keane, incoming CEO] and the team continued growth and success.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, Richard Holdsworth has announced he is to step down as director of cricket with Cricket Ireland. Holdsworth…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-729661","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115981155314653062","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}