The ECB remain world cricket's favourite employers though, judging by the list of candidates said by the papers to be interested in the vacancy for uttering the words 'wrist positions' and 'right areas' a lot, whilst deconstructing the inner life of Ryan Sidebottom over dinner.
As of the first 24 hours, the list stands at: Allan Donald, Jason Gillespie, Geoff Lawson, Darren Gough, Mike Kasprowich, Shaun Pollock, Kevin Shine, Phil DeFreitas, Steve Watkin, Vincent Barnes and Ian Pont.
Form an orderly queue outside the office marked 'Clarke' lads...
NB: Here's a name they should perhaps consider: Wasim Akram.
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Interesting thought. I'm not sure we'll ever, ever, see an Indian or Pakistani coach, batting or bowling, work with/for the English team. If the cultural gap in one direction is big, the one in the other is even larger.
Isn't Mushtaq Ahmed the England spin coach?
Samir, I'd love to see him do it though. Still the best quick bowler I've seen, I think...
Brit he is, yes, and a fine job he's doing with Monty too.
Mea culpa. I'd forgotten about Mushtaq. There goes my thesis.
You'd have thought that a mega-million pound outfit like the ECB would have heard of 'succession planning'.
Didn't their succession planning involve Kevin Shine and Peter Moores?
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