Our Affable DOC has been involved at the club for over 40 years. As a player Paul held the position of First XI Captain and since retiring from playing has also been Chairman of the club. He is a very experienced Level II coach specialising in wicket keeping and currently a mentor to our senior playing members.
Steve has been a Level III coach for over 20years. He has worked extensively in Australia where he owned his own cricket coaching business. In recent years Steve worked for Durham CCC as a Batting and Spin Bowling Consultant and in 2017 worked as an Assistant Coach with Gujurat Lions in the IPL.
Nathan is a former professional cricketer and cureent ECB Level III coach. He has played in some of cricket's biggest leagues, including the IPL and Big Bash. Making his first-class debut in 2005 for the Queensland Bulls, he has enjoyed representing teams all over the world including Kings XI Punjab, Perth Scorchers, Melbourne Renegades, Hampshire, Derbyshire and Durham. He has also played in the T10 League and Afghanistan Premier League. Nathan is known for his bowling at the death and was the first player to take a T20 and List A hat-trick.
Joining BACC in 2015 as the Overseas Amateur when he was a 19yr old, Jacob was an aspiring high-level cricketer. Since then, he has resided in the UK and continued to play cricket for BACC and has become a valuable member of our junior coaching team. Jacobs positive approach to cricket rubs off in his coaching and indeed he is very popular amongst our playing members. He is currently Secretary within our club and also a regular first team player.
Paul has played cricket at Bishop Auckland since the age of 12, progressing through our junior set up and into senior cricket. He has performed strongly for all our senior sides over the years and captained the club’s 2nd XI for many years before stepping down. Paul has been a level II coach for over 6 years but actively been coaching juniors for over 10+ years. He has been the Head Junior Coach for many years facilitating the games, winter / summer nets, social events and of course presentations.
Since 2006 John has been coaching players at our club. Both his son and his daughter are still currently junior members and John has been a particularly hard worker with our junior members. He is a qualified umpire and scorer and still plays in the club second team from time to time.
Stu has been a proud coaching team member since 2017 and is involved with junior members in all age groups. He is currently the Junior Coordinator within the club and leads our All Stars and Dynamos programmes. From time to time he plays in our second team and his foster children have played for our junior teams.
