Mark Coloes grew up playing competitive level cricket in New Zealand. He then started coaching both men’s and women’s teams progressing to being appointed High Performance Manager for the pacific island nation of Vanuatu in 2010. He then became the head coach for Scarborough Cricket Club in Western Australia, before moving back to New Zealand to be the coaching coordinator and specialist coach for the Wellington Blaze in the new, national T20 league. In 2017, he was appointed head coach of the Pakistan women’s national cricket team. During this time Pakistan won nine of the 28 Women’s One Day Internationals, and 12 of their 30 Women’s Twenty20 International matches, and also finished fifth in the 2017–20 ICC Women’s Championship. He left in 2019 to spend more time with his family and in 2021 was appointed head coach of the Scottish women’s cricket team.