David Owen Nosworthy is one of the worlds' respected first-class cricket coaches. His portfolio of first-class coaching roles include the South African Highveld Lions, the New Zealand Canterbury Wizards and the South African Nashua Titans.
Nosworthy was born in Johannesburg, South Africa on Christmas Day, 1967 and took up cricket at a young age whilst living in Port Elizabeth. He played cricket for Grey High School in Port Elizabeth where he broke the great batsman Graeme Pollock's record for the most runs in a season whilst at school.
As a young player he played in Yorkshire and Huddersfield in England for Marsden CC.
He first made his name playing for the South African Border cricket team as a batsman, based in the town of East London and although he never made the step up to international cricket, he was a well-respected player at the time.
Following his retirement from playing, he took up a coaching role with the Pretoria based franchise, the Nashua Titans where he led them to numerous trophies. The Easterns cricket team was merged into the Nashua Titans and Nosworthy was selected over ex-SA wicket keeper Ray Jennings for the coaching position, a decision rumoured to be driven by the alleged clash of personalities between Jennings and SA captain Graeme Smith.
Nosworthy was also the head coach of the United Cricket Board (now Cricket South Africa as coach of the National Academy in 2005 before leaving SA for the shores of New Zealand. Here Nosworthy coached the first-class Canterbury Wizards, where he took the team to a State Championship title in 2007-08 and victories in the State Shield and the Twenty20 competition in 2005-06. In early 2007, Nosworthy was announced as the coach for the New Zealand A Team tour to Australia, scheduled for July 2007.
In September 2008 David Nosworthy took up a position as head coach for the South African first-class cricket team, the Lions based at the Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg.
David Nosworthy ended his career with reasonable playing statistics:
Batting and fielding averages
| Matches | Innings | NO | Runs | High Score | Average | 100 | 50 | Catches | Stumpings | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First Class | 29 | 54 | 3 | 1451 | 141* | 28.45 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 0 |
| List A | 14 | 11 | 1 | 244 | 69 | 24.40 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
Bowling averages
| Matches | Balls | Runs | Wkts | BBI | BBM | Ave | Econ | SR | 4w | 5w | 10 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First-class | 29 | 110 | 69 | 1 | 1/57 | 69.00 | 3.76 | 110.0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| List A | 14 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Career Span
| First-class span | 1988/89 - 1995/96 |
| List A span | 1991/92 - 1994/95 |