Canterbury women's cricket captain Haidee Tiffen is in for a busy summer.

Apart from the responsibilities of attempting to regain the State League for Canterbury as captain of the side, she has just been appointed the women's development officer for Canterbury Cricket over the next six months.

Tiffen's role will be an all-encompassing job to promote the women's game. Working out of the Canterbury Cricket offices she will spend time in the Canterbury district associations and coaching at clubs and schools around Christchurch.

Tiffen will also be expected to help sustain the Canterbury women's club cricket competition, to recruit new players, provide opportunities for women to have coaching and umpire education while also promoting women's cricket in the local media.

Already she has plans to visit three of the five district associations and she is looking to promote the women's game to the point where adult women's competitions may be developed.

Tiffen has been coaching women's teams at several Christchurch clubs and has been keeping an eye on the Wednesday afternoon secondary schools' competition where she has been providing information for players on how to join clubs.

Canterbury Cricket chief executive Richard Reid said: "Canterbury Cricket is thrilled to have a person of Haidee's calibre undertaking such a role. Haidee was a member of the TelstraClear White Ferns CricInfo Women's World Cup-winning team and has just been named captain of the State Canterbury Magicians for the coming season, so she is extremely well respected in cricketing circles.

"She also has the ability to relate well to any group that she is working with and is the ideal person to be undertaking such a position."

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