Jimmy Anyon has been appointed as head coach of Sussex Women.

Anyon takes over from Charlotte Burton who stepped down in December having been at the helm since 2010.

The former Sussex fast bowler was forced to retire from the game due to injury 12 months ago and assisted Burton last season as well as coaching at Brighton College.

Anyon said: "I’m looking forward to starting my new role. This is a great opportunity to continue working with Sussex, and hopefully we can build on the past successes that the team have achieved.

“The women’s game is a fast-growing sport and I am looking forward to bringing my own experiences from professional cricket and hopefully using them to help the girls moving forward.

“We have an exciting squad and some talented young players coming through and we’re hoping to build a team in a successful environment for many seasons to come.”

Anyon - who took 199 first class wickets in 63 games for Sussex - will be assisted by former Sussex Women's most capped player Alexia Walker who will also help out with the under-21 and under-19 squads as well as being head coach for the under-17s.

Mike Yardy, Jason Swift, James Kirtley and Michael Bates will also help out with coaching the senior team in specialist roles while Terry Burton will act as team manager.

Sussex’s director of cricket, Keith Greenfield, said: “Over the past year, Jimmy has made a significant impact around the women’s senior side and his appointment will be excellent for the continued aspiration to improve the quality of provision in the women’s game. He will be assisted by various other specialist coaches around the senior side from the professional coaching staff.

“Since the club’s merger, there have been many excellent initiatives to again increase the quality and quantity of provision. With Alexia assisting Jimmy in the under-19 and 21 sides and heading up the under-17 programme, and Ian Cox leading the under-15 and assisting Alexia in the under-17 programme, this will make a huge difference to the continuity throughout the upper end of the women and girls pathway and give the extra provision that the sides have needed for a little while now.”