Ben Sawyer


Ben Sawyer is an Australian cricket coach, who is the current head coach of the Sydney Sixers women's team, an assistant coach of the Australia women's national cricket team, and a coach of New South Wales Breakers. From 2021, Sawyer is scheduled to be head coach of the Birmingham Phoenix women's team in The Hundred.

Career

Sawyer is the head coach of Sydney Sixers in the Women's Big Bash League. Under his leadership, the Sixers won two WBBL competitions in 2016–17 and 2017–18, and were losing finalists in the 2015–16 and 2018–19 WBBL seasons. He has the highest win percentage of any women's Twenty20 coach.
Sawyer has also worked as an assistant coach for the Australia women's under-19 team, and for New South Wales Breakers as a fast bowling coach. Prior to the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20, Sawyer was appointed an assistant coach of the Australia women's national cricket team, where he focused on fast bowling. He replaced Ashley Noffke in the role. Australian cricketer Ellyse Perry credited Sawyer as an important figure in helping Australia win the 2019 Women's Ashes. Sawyer's contract was later extended until the 2021 Women's Cricket World Cup. During his tenure as assistant coach, Australia have won two ICC Women's T20 World Cups and an Women's Ashes in England.
In 2019, Sawyer was announced as the head coach of the The Hundred women's team Birmingham Phoenix. The 2020 edition of The Hundred was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and so Sawyer will take up the role in 2021. In 2020, Sawyer became a full-time coach of the New South Wales Breakers. He will continue with his part-time Australia coaching role, and as coach of the Sydney Sixers.