Australia add three-time Ashes-winning coach Andy Flower to backroom workers
Australia hope to turn out to be the primary crew since England in 2010-11 to win an away Ashes sequence this summer season, and have ramped up their makes an attempt to take action by including Andy Flower – the mastermind of that success – to their backroom workers.
Flower, a three-time Ashes-winning coach with England, has joined the Australia squad on a consultancy foundation forward of this week’s World Test Championship closing at The Oval.
Pat Cummins, Australia’s captain, mentioned that Australia have been “lucky to have someone as experienced as Andy” of their camp heading right into a busy two-month interval within the UK, which is able to see them play six Tests in eight weeks.
“[He brings] experience over here, first of all,” Cummins mentioned, “and knows these conditions really well. Hopefully he knows the opposition, so if he can give us one little bit of insight into playing in England that we haven’t thought about then it’s worth it.
“I feel Andrew [McDonald] has labored with him fairly a bit, and you’ve got seen us over time carry in numerous folks at totally different occasions. We’re fairly fortunate to have somebody as skilled as Andy.”
However, Flower is not expected to be involved in the build-up to the first Ashes Test at Edgbaston on June 16, but ESPNcricinfo understands that he will return to the set-up during the latter stages of the Ashes – most likely before the third Test at Headingley starts from July 6.
Flower had coached England from 2009-14, a stint which included four Ashes series. He emerged victorious in his first three of those – in 2009, 2010-11 and 2013 – before stepping down after his side was whitewashed in Australia in 2013-14.
He spent the following five years working in the ECB’s pathways, overseeing the England Lions set-up, and has since launched a successful career as a successful head coach in various franchise leagues around the world.
That has included the Hundred, the place Flower coached Trent Rockets to the title last summer. Intriguingly, since groups within the Hundred are run centrally relatively than by non-public traders, Flower’s Rockets contract means he’s nonetheless on the ECB’s payroll.