Middlesex Cricket can today confirm that Kari Carswell will leave the Club at the end of March, to re-join Scotland Cricket as Head Coach of their Women’s Under 19 squad.
Carswell leaves the Club after two and a half years, having joined Middlesex in June 2021 as Head of Women’s Cricket, before then becoming Head of the Club’s Participation Team in November 2022.
Stirling-born Carswell returns home having previously held distinguished playing and coaching careers with Cricket Scotland, earning over 150 caps as a player in a seventeen-year playing career, before becoming U17 Head Coach and Head Coach of the Women’s national side.
On returning to Scotland, Carswell’s first goal will be to steer her country’s U19 Women to qualification for a second successive ICC U19 Women’s T20 World Cup, which takes place in Malaysia and Thailand in 2025.
On announcing her decision to leave Middlesex Cricket, Carswell commented:
“I’m really excited to be back involved with Scotland. I’ve been a keen watcher over a number of years now, and to be heading back to coach there is really exciting. I feel like I’ve gone away and learned lots, and I want to pass on as much as I can to the players and coaches involved.
“We’ve been away from Scotland for a longish period, and we really want to be closer to our families. This opportunity came up and it’s a very good time for Andy and I to move back to Stirling. As anybody will tell you, I’m a proud Scot and the opportunity to give back was too good to turn down.
“I’ve met some absolutely wonderful people in my time at Middlesex and have thoroughly enjoyed my time in London. I’m a Middlesex fan now and I know I’ll be back to watch games. To be able to say I’ve called Lord's my office is still so surreal!”
Andrew Cornish, Middlesex Cricket’s CEO commented:
“We are sad to see Kari leave the Club after all that she has achieved here at Middlesex.
“We are grateful to her for all she has done in her time with us, and we completely understand her desire to return home to Scotland and get involved with the national side again.
“We wish her luck in her new venture, and she is always welcome back here at Lord’s.”
