Former Yorkshire wicketkeeper Simon Guy joined The Blaze’s coaching staff full-time ahead of the 2025 season.

He had previously worked as a freelance coach since 2010, which dovetailed with his retirement from the professional game in 2011.

During a 12-season career at Headingley, Rotherham-born Guy represented the White Rose on 79 occasions across formats, claiming a total of 156 victims from behind the stumps.

After leaving Yorkshire, he went on to play for Suffolk in the Minor Counties structure between 2012 and 2015, before being appointed as coach of Gibraltar’s national team in January 2018.

He worked in that post concurrently with a role as Director of Cricket at Denstone College in Staffordshire, before departing both in 2022 and joining The Blaze full-time three years later.

After The Blaze reached the semi-finals of all three competitions in Guy’s first season on the staff, the side truly flourished in his second, bringing home an unprecedented treble of the Metro Bank One Day Cup, the Vitality Blast, and the Vitality Women’s T20 County Cup.