CANBERRA - A one-time assistant to former Australian Test cricket coach Bob Simpson has been appointed as head coach of the ACT Cricket Association.

David Macpherson played cricket for 25 years in NSW, Victoria and English County and began his coaching career with Manly Warringah in Sydney District in 1977.

He spent 13 years on the NSW Cricket Association coaching panel and four years as the senior development coach and had coaching experience with the Australian Test and one-day squads as assistant to Simpson. Macpherson was coach of the ACT Comets last year after assisting Rod Tucker the year before.

The ACT lost its national one-day competition representation two years ago but competes in the national second-level competition.

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