Paul Collingwood, Jon Lewis and Marcus Trescothick are part of the wider coaching staff. There is a large number of coaches involved in the England set up that are respected former professionals.
#Ashes /7lTlQQQOTg- Cricket on BT Sport December 28, 2021 "We have to find a way of competing against "Įngland head coach Chris Silverwood reflects on going 3-0 down inside twelve days of cricket. Considering the number of absentees in the squad, agonising defeat to New Zealand in the semi final stage was seen as acceptable. Silverwood’s main aim was to win the white ball double with the IT20 World Cup in the autumn. If it wasn’t for Joe Root’s unbelievable year in which he scored 1,708 Test runs, the third-most in Test history in a calendar year – it would look much bleaker.
Since then, England have lost six of their nine Test matches. In April 2021, England Head Coach Chris Silverwood was entrusted as sole selector of the England cricket team. Could England’s coaching and management be an issue? Head coach Chris Silverwood has been more circumspect but has nodded to “questions” and “conversations” that need to happen after the Ashes concludes, suggesting he sees work to be done. Speaking after the gruesome defeat in Melbourne, he said: “You look back at 2015 and the reset that happened in white-ball cricket and maybe that’s something that needs to be happening in our red-ball game as well”. There are no bigger voices in English cricket than Joe Root and he has come as close to calling for a systemic overhaul as anyone who wears the captain’s blazer is likely to. Here, The Cricket Paper take a closer look at some of those issues and asks what can be done to improve things.
The response has been some familiar questions about the state of the game and what might be done to put it right. Joe Root’s side have won just once in their last 12 games and are the first English team to lose nine in a calendar year. England’s Ashes capitulation at Melbourne not only saw them give up their hopes of reclaiming the urn, it also continued a horror run of results for England in Test cricket.