Marcus Trescothick keen to become England cricket head coach in future-ZoomTech News


Marcus Trescothick has expressed his curiosity in turning into England head coach sooner or later.

The previous England batter has been the Take a look at aspect’s assistant coach and have become interim white-ball coach after Matthew Mott’s departure in July.

Trescothick has since coached the limited-over aspect within the sequence towards Australia and the tour of West Indies, with Brendon McCullum assuming cost throughout all codecs from January.

“Beforehand, I assumed I needed to be a head coach, however taking the reins for the 2 sequence has confirmed to me that I would love the chance to do it sooner or later,” he advised the Mail on Sunday.

“I’m very invested within the job I’m doing in the intervening time, so it is not going to be imminent. However down the road, as and when issues transfer round, it’s one thing I might be very open to.

“It is a good purpose to have. Doing this job has given me a taster and a perception that I can go on to greater issues.”

Trescothick known as time on his England profession in 2008 after battling with melancholy and nervousness, withdrawing from abroad excursions towards India and Australia in 2006.

The 49-year-old retired from cricket in 2019 and has been a part of the England teaching set-up since 2021.

Talking through the West Indies tour, Trescothick mentioned he has realized to handle his psychological well being struggles.

“You discover strategies of understanding after which coping, after which regularly working increasingly with therapists I have been in a position to get to some extent the place I have been in a position to say: ‘OK, we’ve performed that journey, what is the stepping stone to doing the following one, after which that one and the one after that?'” the previous Somerset opener mentioned.

“I knew alternatives post-playing would imply extra travelling. The coach that I wish to be entails that.”

New Zealander McCullum has a contract with England till the top of 2027 with Rob Key, the managing director of England males’s cricket, eager to have an English coach accountable for the aspect in the long term.

In the meantime, England have introduced assistant coaches Carl Hopkinson and Richard Dawson will go away their roles on the finish of the present tour of the West Indies.

Hopkinson has been within the England set-up since 2018, throughout which they received the 50-over World Cup in 2019 and the T20 World Cup in 2022, with former England spinner Dawson additionally a part of the teaching crew for the latter.


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