Mark Geoffrey Lane is a retired English cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er, who is now the head coach

Coach (sport)

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 of the England women's cricket team.

Lane made six appearances in List A cricket for Berkshire County Cricket Club

Berkshire County Cricket Club

Berkshire County Cricket Club is one of the county clubs which make up the Minor Counties in the English domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Berkshire and playing in the Minor Counties Championship and MCCA Knockout Trophy....

 between 1996 and 2001, scoring 74 runs and claiming 13 dismissals as wicket-keeper

Wicket-keeper

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. He also played for Hampshire

Hampshire County Cricket Club

Hampshire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Hampshire in cricket's County Championship. The club was founded in 1863 as a successor to the Hampshire county cricket teams and has played at the Antelope Ground from then until 1885, before moving to the County Ground where it...

 and Surrey

Surrey County Cricket Club

Surrey County Cricket Club is one of the 18 professional county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure, representing the historic county of Surrey. Its limited overs team is called the Surrey Lions...

's second elevens

Second XI Championship

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, before becoming a coach with Surrey.

He became coach of the England women's team on 16 April 2008, following the sudden resignation of Mark Dobson

Mark Dobson

Mark Christopher Dobson is a former English cricketer. Dobson was a right-handed batsman who bowled slow left-arm orthodox. He was born at Canterbury, Kent.Dobson made his first-class debut for Kent against Essex...

 midway through a tour of Australia and New Zealand. He coached England to victories in both the 2009 World Cup and Twenty/20 Championship.

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