Former Australia batter Matthew Hayden is about to be named head coach of the European T20 Premier League’s Glasgow franchise.
BBC Sport understands Hayden has signed as much as coach Glasgow Cosmic for the inaugural match between 26 August and 20 September.
Hayden has break up his time between commentary work and training since retiring from taking part in in 2012.
The 54-year-old’s most up-to-date teaching job was because the Gujarat Titans’ batting coach for the 2026 season of the Indian Premier League (IPL).
Hayden beforehand held batting and mentoring roles as a part of Pakistan’s teaching employees from 2021 till after the 2022 T20 World Cup.
He performed 103 Assessments, 161 one-day internationals and 9 T20s for Australia between 1993 and 2009 scoring 15,066 runs throughout all codecs.
Hayden’s assistant at Cosmic will likely be fellow Queenslander Matthew Mott, who coached England’s white-ball staff between 2022 and 2024.
New Zealand opener Finn Allen, South Africa fast Lungi Ngidi and former England all-rounder Liam Livingstone are among the many gamers to have agreed offers to play for Cosmic within the ETPL.
The ETPL is being run in collaboration with the cricket boards of Eire, Scotland and the Netherlands with groups based mostly out of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Belfast, Dublin, Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Glasgow Cosmic are backed by the Mugafi Group, an India-based leisure enterprise, whereas former Australia captain Steve Waugh and India legend Rahul Dravid are amongst these to spend money on different ETPL franchises.
Bollywood actor and movie producer Abhishek Bachchan is a part-owner of the league along with Guidelines Sport Tech, a non-public Indian firm.
The primary version of the match will likely be staged in The Hague and Dublin.
