Former England batter Marcus Trescothick, who shall be serving as Three Lions’ interim head coach for the white-ball collection towards Australia at house subsequent month, stated that he has not determined if he desires to be thought-about for this function as a long-term choice. Trescothick is at the moment one of many staff’s assistant coaches and is working with the Take a look at staff through the ongoing Sri Lanka collection. He’ll go away the squad through the third Take a look at at The Oval to be with the white-ball squads for the collection ranging from September 11 onwards.
The latest departure of Mott as England’s white-ball coach after failures to defend each white-ball ICC titles has left a emptiness in one of the highly-sought roles in world cricket and a bunch of former gamers and main coaches have already had their names linked to the job by cricket media.
“It isn’t one thing I had ever thought of earlier than, till I bought this chance now. I’m not essentially considering any additional forward than the top of the Australia collection. I’ve been very a lot targeted on the job we’re doing right here [with the Test team],” he stated as quoted by ESPNCricinfo.
“You intend your winter: we’re off to Pakistan, then New Zealand. I’m so ingrained in that for the time being, I’ve not likely sat down and stated, ‘proper, that is the place I’ll attempt to go, that is what I’ll attempt to do’. I’m wanting ahead to the chance, for positive. I’m actually enthusiastic about doing the job. We are going to work it out slightly bit extra from there,” he added.
Having by no means labored as a head coach, the previous English left-hander had expressed curiosity for the function. He was Somerset’s assistant coach for a yr and a half after his retirement in 2019 and has been part of England’s teaching set-up since early 2021.
Trescothick shall be working carefully with white-ball captain Jos Buttler, who’s near him given their time collectively as gamers for Somerset. Buttler returned to the sphere for coaching this week after a cal damage dominated him out of The Hundred competitors and will play for Lancashire within the T20 Blast quarterfinal towards Sussex on September 4.
England’s collection towards Australia will begin simply 24 hours after the scheduled shut of the ultimate Take a look at match towards Sri Lanka, which implies groups shall be completely different for each collection.
They’ve a busy schedule,” Trescothick stated. “The 2 collection very carefully overlap,” he added.
The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is but to promote the white-ball coach place left vacant by Mott. Sri Lankan legend Kumar Sangakkara, former England all-rounder and present Northern Superchargers coach Andrew Flintoff are among the many favourites for the function.
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