Moores Named New England Coach

The Phantom

England have named Peter Moores as the permanent successor to departing head coach Duncan Fletcher. Moores, currently the National Cricket Academy director, will start on 1 May.

The appointment comes less than a day after Fletcher decided to step down after eight years in the role following England's exit from the World Cup.

"Peter has been identified for some time as a leading candidate as a future England head coach," said ECB chief executive David Collier.

Tyler Durden

Personally I would have preferred England to use the management structure that Shane Warne has said teams should use, i.e a team "manager" that has basically collates all the coaching requirements of the players.

A player at Test level shouldn't need random holistic coaching from just one guy, if he needs coaching, e.g if he's a batsman, then the team manager should arrange that with a specialist, like Boycott or Gooch for example. Likewise for bowlers and wicketkeepers. A solitary coach cannot be able to assist all players at all things.

If England wish to go down this route, Moores is as good an "English" selection as we could make. An interesting international selection may have been Tom Moody. Especially with his Anglo connnections.