THE GREAT COACHES

Glenn Pocknall

Glenn Pocknall

Glenn Pocknall is a cricket coach with over 20 year’s experience at the elite level. He started coaching in 2002, learning through leading youth representative teams. He eventually joined the Wellington Firebirds in the New Zealand National league as an Assistant coach.

He then went to England, Ireland, and the Netherlands to gather international experience and in eventually returned to New Zealand and became the Wellington Head Coach.  In that role he led the team to win all 3 domestic titles, Ford Trophy (50over) in 2019, Plunket Shield (four day) in 2020 and back-to-back Super Smash (t20) titles in 2020 and 2021. In 2021 he was given his first chance to lead the New Zealand National team in a T20 series.