Search For New England Coach

Hugh Morris seems to have been in the spotlight in recently which is interesting because the England team is no longer a force in test cricket according to the rankings. He has heaped praise on the job done by the caretaker coach Andy Flower in overseeing a test series defeat and several poor one day performances. This is an ominous sign and it probably indicates that Flower gets his vote for the job permanently. All this promoting from within rubbish has gotten us nowhere fast ever since Duncan Fletcher left the post.

The way the ECB has gone about the quest for a new coach leaves a lot to be desired. What is wrong with these people? Sometimes they cannot identify the nation’s best cricketers and now they invite applications for a head coach. What they should have done is decided who they wanted beforehand then moved heaven and earth to get their man. But instead they have outsourced the search to a recruitment firm. If I were Tom Moody, I would think they were having a laugh. No wonder he turned the job down England did not exactly make him feel wanted.

Presumably Flower like Moores will say all the right things, interview well impressing the relevant people. Whether he is good enough to be the England cricket coach is irrelevant. The most important thing it seems is getting on well with people at the ECB and if he pulls that off you can almost guarantee he will be the one they choose. Graham Ford who was among the favourites has withdrawn his application because of the lengthy process. They seem to be running out of credible candidates and it is not hard to work out why that is.

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