Graeme Welch: Warwickshire bowling coach joins Hampshire
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'Pop' Welch has spent a combined 15 years on the Warwickshire staff as player and coach over three spells
Warwickshire's bowling coach Graeme Welch is to join Hampshire.
The 49-year-old former Bears fast bowler also held the role at Edgbaston between 2010 and 2014 before spells with Derbyshire and Leicestershire.
Welch was part of the coaching set-up which led Warwickshire to the County Championship this summer, and in 2012.
He also won two county titles with the Bears as a player and was part of the Southern Brave backroom staff when they won the men's Hundred this summer.
Welch will link up again with former Bears fast bowler Keith Barker, who last season helped take Hampshire so close to a first county title since 1973.
"Hampshire have a talented and experienced squad which came so close to winning two trophies last year," said Welch. "It is a new chapter for me which I am really looking forward to."
As a player, Durham-born Welch took 477 wickets at an average of 31.51, in a first-class career at Warwickshire and Derbyshire that spanned 12 years before beginning his coaching career with Essex.
"He's done an excellent job with the seamers and spinners over the last four years," said Warwickshire director of cricket Paul Farbrace.
"He played a significant role in this year's County Championship success, as well our previous Championship in 2012. We wish him every success at Hampshire,"
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