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ECB advertises for separate crimson and white-ball teaching job

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England are set to return to a split-coaching construction after ECB’s new Managing Director Rob Key made his first main resolution by promoting for 2 new head coaches.

The cut up in roles is on anticipated strains as Key had earlier known as for it whereas working as a pundit.

Both coaches will report on to Key and be “accomplished strategists with clear and ambitious plans for how they will develop and build success for English cricket moving forward,” in accordance the commercial.

The deadline for purposes for the pinnacle coach roles is May 6.

Key, the previous Test batter who was appointed England’s new managing director earlier this month, will start the first-round interviews from May 9 and 10.

England beforehand had two separate head coaches between 2012 and 2014 with Andy Flower (Tests) and Ashley Giles (T20s and ODIs) on the helm.

Chris Silverwood, who was sacked after the Ashes defeat in Australia, had missed a number of limited-overs sequence as a result of a packed schedule.

Gary Kirsten, Graham Ford and Simon Katich are potential candidates.

All-rounder Ben Stokes is the clear favorite to be named the Test skipper after Joe Root resigned from the put up following the sequence loss within the West Indies.

It is probably going that Stokes could possibly be confirmed this week by Key.

Key will likely be formally unveiled to the media at Lord’s on Thursday.

England’s subsequent Test is towards New Zealand on June 2 whereas they tackle Netherlands in a white-ball sequence.