The ECB look to move forward

The English Cricket Board have expressed an interest in working with the WRU in setting up a system to take the England & Wales cricket team back to the top after their embarrassing exit from the ICC T20, ECB officials are set to meet up with WRU officials in Cardiff today to discuss how to move forward after such a big set back..

But WRU are even further behind the eight-ball in their sport than England?
I mean, SANZAR is head and shoulders at the moment, while Argentina have made back to back WC Semi's... Unless England are hoping to establish themselves as the best side in Europe following the Netherlands debacle? I just can't understand how this is beneficial

Srs.

good move
OR
Better
they could let their players play freely in IPL....great T20, limited over, subcontinental conditions( which is 50% of the cricketing world) experience ....

PLUS a lot off money....
PLUS money shared by players earnings with their clubs also.

win-win-win.....situation if ever there was one.......but acceptance might mean lowering the nose is the only issue that comes in the way

Eng's job lacks appeal for top coaches....says Agnew on BBC

and so bottom of the chain Giles ( or equivalent ) is all that Eng can afford ?
I disagree.....I believe there might be more brilliant minds available for the "passion and challenge" factor.
Warne might agree to come and so might Vaughan.

It's important that ECB has clear in their mind what they are looking for in the coach....

1) do they want a strategist, motivator, excellent reader of the game who can get the best out of the team....like an off-field captain.

2) OR they want a conventional coach that works on the cricketing aspects of the game and comes with certificates


I believe Eng's requirements are more of 1)...and that's where Vaughan and Warne fit in

http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/cricket/26809043

Ashley Giles favourite as others shun England coaching job

Monday's dead rubber against the Netherlands in the World Twenty20 will bring down the curtain on a shocking winter for the England team.
We can only hope they dispose of the Dutch in a professional manner so they don't plumb still greater depths before boarding the flight home.
It seems extraordinary that it was only back in mid-November that England were easily winning an Ashes warm-up match in Sydney and everyone was feeling very optimistic about the team. Batsmen were scoring runs, bowlers were taking wickets and everything seemed right.
Since then, just about everything that could go wrong has gone wrong - but now is the time to look to the future and start rebuilding English cricket from the foundations.


The most pressing issue is the appointment of a new head coach, but having asked a few questions, my understanding is that there aren't actually many high-profile candidates in contention.
Gary Kirsten, who enjoyed such success with India and South Africa, has not applied for the role and neither have Paul Farbrace, Ottis Gibson or Stephen Fleming.
In many ways, it is a great time to be taking over. Although the new coach will not be able to select Kevin Pietersen - and it was interesting to see Kirsten making Pietersen his captain at Delhi Daredevils - they have a chance to stamp their authority on the team and steer it in their own direction.
You only have to look at the experience of David Moyes at Manchester United to see how much harder it can be to take over from a successful regime when expectation levels are so high.
For most of these top-level cricket coaches, however, the choice is a no-brainer. Why would they want to slog around the world for 12 months under the spotlight with England when they can just knock off an Indian Premier League season and earn about the same amount of money?
This is the stark reality in modern cricket and you can see why the England job isn't attracting the calibre of coach that perhaps it once did.