Surrey County Cricket Club assistant coach Nadeem Shahid has decided to pursue an alternative career and is leaving the Brit Oval with immediate effect.
Shahid, 39, had been with the Club for fifteen years as a player and a coach and said he made his decision to leave Surrey “with a heavy heart”.
“I have thoroughly enjoyed my career at Surrey and it was an incredibly difficult decision to leave”, he said this week. “However, an opportunity I have recently received to run a multi-sports academy in South Africa is one I can’t turn down.
“I take great pleasure in wishing the Club every success for the future and look forward to seeing the new management team delivering some silverware in the coming years.”
Surrey’s Managing Director of Cricket Gus Mackay added: “Nadeem Shahid has served this Club honourably, both as a player and a coach. I fully understand and support his desire to develop his career and wish him every success for the future.”
Nadeem Shahid played 82 times for Surrey, averaging 31.12, scoring seven centuries and taking 89 catches. He played for ten seasons and was part of a Surrey squad that won nine trophies in this time. Since retiring he has worked for the Club, firstly as its first ever Community Manager and more recently as the coach of the Second XI, a role he fulfilled from 2006 until the beginning of 2009.
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