Eoin Morgan has given his thoughts on whether England should look to split the vacant head coach role.
England are looking to appoint a new coach after Chris Silverwood was axed in the wake of a humiliating 4-0 defeat in the Ashes. A new managing director will need to be named before England can properly begin their search for Silverwood's replacement, but interim managing director Sir Andrew Strauss has already hinted the role could be split between red and white ball cricket.
Speaking in February, Strauss raised the idea as a possibility, telling reporters: "What are we looking for? Split coaches or one coach and what are the requirements in each of those formats so to speak?"
And in an interview with ESPNcricinfo , Morgan has given his take on the potential of split coaches. "A lot of people have jumped to conclusions about appointing a coach but the first point of call is to get a director of cricket in place and then the recruitment process starts after that," he said.
"The last time we had a split coaching role, things were very different. It was Ashley Giles and Andy Flower under a different managing director of cricket.
"If you are going to change something, the level of expectation around different series and different formats needs to be communicated really well and completely understood by both coaches and both teams. I don't have a massive view on it but obviously whoever comes in needs to do a good job.
"We have a huge amount of talent in all three formats of the game and it's about trying to utilise that. You're talking about working with the No. 1 or No. 2 ranked sides in the world in two formats - working at the pointy end of things, dealing with the level of expectation that brings with it.
"Our players have dealt with that really well, but they're hungry to get better and better and be at that pointy end as long as they can." At the age of 35 and approaching the end of his career, Morgan has regularly been touted as a future coach himself. And Morgan has admitted he is keen to "have some sort of role within cricket" once he retires.
He added: "Down the line, I always want to have some sort of role within cricket but what that looks like, at the moment I still don't know. I haven't identified a role that I'm dead set on wanting to do, but I certainly believe, having been the more experienced player that I have been in the last handful of years, that I have something to offer in that capacity."
