adminLONDON. — Former England head coach Andy Flower was appointed to a new role within the England and Wales Cricket Board hierarchy yesterday with officials announcing he’d become their technical director of elite coaching.
Flower resigned last month as coach of the national side following the team’s humiliating 5-0 Ashes series loss in Australia, a reverse that also signalled the end of star batsman Kevin Pietersen’s international career. But at the time of his departure from the coaching role, English cricket chiefs made it clear they wanted Flower to stay on in another capacity.
And in a statement issued yesterday, the ECB said the new position would see Flower taking on a wide-ranging role that would “incorporate working with the next generation of England players and coaches as well as being charged with creating a leadership programme for young England players”. Prior to the Ashes debacle, the 45-year-old Flower — appointed as England coach in 2009 — oversaw three Test series wins against Australia, including the 2010-11 campaign ‘Down Under’.
Under Flower’s guidance, England also won the 2010 World Twenty20 title in the Caribbean and the following year took the side to the top of the world Test rankings. — AFP.
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