Flower power: can England tempt head coach back with an already flawed setup? | Ali Martin
원문 보기England Test head coach vacancy may not appeal to the Zimbabwean who is at the top of his fieldThat Andy Flower emerged as the favourite to take over England’s Test team so soon after Brendon McCullum’s demotion should come as no surprise. Put simply, the Zimbabwean is the leading active head coach on the circuit. During his first spell in the job from 2009 to 2014, England won three successive Ashes series, ended a 27-year wait to win a Test series in India, and rose to No 1 in the Test rankings. The men’s white-ball team also broke its duck in global tournaments by lifting the World T20 in the Caribbean in 2010. Flower has since carved out a successful second career. In franchise cricket, his teams have won the Pakistan Super League, the Hundred, the ILT20, and the Indian Premier League (twice). When Australia broke India’s hearts by securing the 2023 World Cup, Flower was in their camp as a batting consultant.The impact of Flower on English cricket also extends beyond his first spell as head coach and a subsequent four-year role with the Lions, having furnished his successors with a generation of hardened cricketers. Now that Ben Stokes has retired, following Jimmy Anderson, Stuart Broad and Chris Woakes, Joe Root feels like the last polar bear on a shrinking ice cap. Continue reading...