Julien Fountain
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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Julien Fountain |
| Born |
25 July 1970 Shoreham by Sea, Sussex, England |
| Nickname | Jules, The Professor, The Baseball Guy |
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) |
| Batting style | Right-handed |
| Bowling style | Right-arm off break |
| Role | Coach |
| Source: Cricinfo | |
Julien Fountain (born 1970 in Shoreham-by-sea, Sussex) is an English professional cricket coach and former Great Britain Olympic Baseball player. He is known primarily as a Specialist Fielding Coach but has also performed the role of Head Coach & Assistant Coach. He has featured on the coaching staffs of the West Indies, Pakistan, Bangladesh & England and has coached at 36 Test Matches, 106 ODI's and 28 T20 Internationals. This includes two ICC Fifty Over World Cups & one ICC T20 World Cup, one Asia Cup & one Champions Trophy. He has also coached at a wide variety of domestic or franchise fixtures.
He coaches both international and domestic or franchise cricket and was part of the BPL Winning Dhaka Gladiators coaching staff in 2012 and the Stanford Superstars coaching staff in 2008, when the team beat England convincingly in a one off Twenty Million Dollar game in Antigua during the Stanford Super Series.
Fountain was the first baseball player to be used as a Specialist Fielding Coach by any test level cricket team when he was hired in 1998 by the West Indies to coach on their tour of South Africa. On the 2000/01 West Indies tour of Australia he took to the field as substitute fielder for the West Indies against the Prime Ministers eleven at the Manuka Oval in Canberra. He rose to the challenge by running out Anthony McQuire with a direct hit from the boundary. He has acted as Substitute Fielder (12th Man) a total of four times for both West Indies in 2001& 2007 and Pakistan in 2013.
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