ECB Advertises For Two Separate Head Coach Roles For England’s Test And Limited Overs Sides 

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has decided to split the coaching duties for the England national team and has advertised for two new head coaches: one for their Test team, the other for white-ball cricket.

This was a decision that many saw coming after the appointment of Rob Key as the managing director of men’s cricket and has now been officially confirmed, with candidates invited to apply for their desired role by May 6 and first-round interviews scheduled for May 9 and 10. England’s next Test is against New Zealand on June 2, and their next limited-overs series starts on June 17 in the Netherlands.

England had tried the split coaching before as well when Andy Flower was the coach in the Tests and Ashley Giles coached the ODIs and T20Is side from 2012-2014.

Gary Kirsten, Simon Katich Rumored To Be Potential Applicants

Chris Silverwood, whose contract was not renewed after the Ashes debacle, sat out multiple limited-overs series due to the demands of the schedule. With England scheduled to play punishing cricket in the next 12 months, two coaches become a more feasible option.

ESPNCricinfo had revealed on Sunday that Graham Ford, Rob Key’s coach at Kent from 2005 to 2009 is a contender for the Test coach; while Gary Kirsten, Paul Collingwood, Simon Katich, and Tom Moody have also been mentioned as potential applicants.

Collingwood was in charge of both the T20I and Test tours to the Caribbean earlier this year on an interim basis but both series ended in defeat and his closeness to the players as an assistant coach may count against him following England’s poor run of results.

The job specifications suggest that the ideal candidates for the roles should be “accomplished strategists with clear and ambitious plans for how they will develop and build success for English cricket moving forward” who will show that they can “create a winning culture and world-leading teams”.

ECB will unveil Rob Key formally on at Lord’s on Thursday, just over a week after starting his new role, and is expected to present a clearer outline of his vision to revive the England teams.

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