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Jul 05, 1964 59 years old
English cricketer
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About Richard Pybus
- Richard Alexander Pybus (born 5 July 1964 in Newcastle upon Tyne), is an English-born cricket coach, who coached the Pakistan and Bangladesh national teams, and currently serves as the Director of Cricket for the West Indies Cricket Board.
- He has held this post since October 2013.
- In 2017 he applied for Head coach of Indian cricket team. Born in the North-East of England, Pybus grew up in Newcastle upon Tyne till the age of 12 when his parents emigrated to Australia, attending Normanhurst Boys' High School in Sydney.
- In 1979 his family returned to the UK to the North West of England.
- Pybus finished his school education at Ulverston Victoria High School in Cumbria.
- He completed a BA.Hons at Portsmouth University and a postgraduate Certificate of Education at Greenwich University, London. He is a cricket coach and former coach of the Pakistan and Bangladesh national cricket teams, he was consultant coach to Pakistan during the 1999 Cricket World Cup when they progressed to the final.
- He is currently the most successful coach in South African first-class cricket having guided the Titans and the Cape Cobras to nine championship titles over six seasons, winning the Supersport Series Four Day Competition four times.
- He has completed the domestic double three times in a row as a coach, twice with the Titans and once with the Cape Cobras. He was awarded the South African Cricket Coach of the year in 2008–09 and 2010–11 by Cricket South Africa. Pybus' cricketing ambitions as a right-arm fast-medium bowler were ended by injury.
- He played both rugby and minor county cricket for Suffolk, cricket from 1986 to 1991 (cite) cricket archive, and Worcestershire's 2nd XI in 1990.
- He turned to coaching in his early twenties after five surgeries.
