Tim MacDonald

Timothy Peter Macdonald (born 7 September 1980) is an Australian cricket coach and former cricketer, who is an assistant coach of the England women's cricket team. As a player, MacDonald was a bowler who played for Western Australia and Tasmania.

Tim Macdonald

Personal information
Full name	Timothy Peter Macdonald
Born	(1980-09-07) 7 September 1980 (age 44) Subiaco, Western Australia
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm medium-fast
Career statistics
Competition FC LA T20 Matches 21 1 3 Runs scored 120 – 8 Batting average 6.31 – – 100s/50s 0/0 – 0/0 Top score 17 – 8* Balls bowled 3,393 48 66 Wickets 50 0 3 Bowling average 35.30 – 22.00 5 wickets in innings 1 – 0 10 wickets in match 0 – 0 Best bowling 6/40 – 1/18 Catches/stumpings 8/– 1/– 0/–
Source: Cricinfo, 24 May 2020

Career

Macdonald was a pace bowler who represented Western Australia and Tasmania.^[1] He played club cricket for Claremont-Nedlands in the WACA District League; he took 70 wickets in the 2005-06 tournament at an average of 11.63.^[2] He was signed by Western Australia for the 2006–07 season.^[2] He was not selected for the Tasmania squad for the 2011–12 season.^[3]

In the 2013–14 season, Macdonald was player-coach of the Claremont-Nedlands; he took 42 wickets in the season, the most of any Claremont-Nedlands player. After the season, MacDonald retired from playing cricket.^[4] He was named the WACA District League Senior Coach of the Year for the 2016–17 season.^[5]

MacDonald later worked as an assistant coach under Lisa Keightley at Perth Scorchers and Western Fury.^[1] He was an assistant coach for the Australia women's national cricket team for their 2017–18 series in India.^[6] McDonald was later an assistant coach of the England women's cricket team for the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup, and in August 2020, he was given the role full-time.^[1][7]