“The Head Coach needs to demonstrate great organisational and tactical strengths and will be responsible for setting out and then executing short, medium and long-term plans for the development of the England team.”
This is just one of the “key skills” outlined in the candidate brief for those wishing to be considered as the next England head coach across all three formats of the game. For one of those candidates, Ashley Giles, the present limited-overs coach, it is becoming increasingly difficult to look beyond the short-term problems with England’s top order before the World Twenty20 in Bangladesh.