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Peter Moores and Mick Newell confirm interest in England coaching role Peter Moores: 'I would do it differently second time with England'
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Lancashire's Peter Moores and Nottinghamshire's Mick Newell have both declared their interest in becoming the new England head coach. Peter Moores will argue in his interview for a second crack at the England coaching job next week that he is better equipped through bitter experience to avoid the mistakes that undermined him first time around.
Moores, the Lancashire coach, is one of the favourites to succeed Andy Flower and is on a four-man shortlist along with Newell, who is Nottinghamshire's director of cricket, plus the current England limited-overs coach, Ashley Giles, and Trevor Bayliss. Moores previously served as England coach from May 2007 until January 2009, when the breakdown of his relationship with the then captain, Kevin Pietersen, forced the England & Wales Cricket Board to act. Moores confirmed for the first time at Lancashire's pre-season media day on Friday that he has made an application to succeed Andy Flower, although that was already an open secret after a leak that he was on a shortlist with the incumbent Ashley Giles, Nottinghamshire's Mick Newell and Trevor Bayliss, an Australian who has coached Sri Lanka.
He is back in the frame now, though, and said on Friday: "I'm a passionate Englishman and the thought of coaching your country is something I'm interested in. I'm in the process so I suppose it depends what happens – I'm very conscious that I'm in a job now that I've loved and I still love. More interesting was Moores' readiness to concede that he would do things differently. "Yes I did make mistakes," said the 53-year-old former Sussex and Worcestershire wicketkeeper. "I look back at some things and think there were definitely things we could have tackled differently.
"There's an excitement to have another go at it, and a frustration at the last time because in some ways you always have a vision when you're doing any job of where you want to go. There's a draw to go back and work in that environment because you're working with great players and it's a very exciting place to work. "Having done the job before you learn a lot. I have had five or six years now to reflect on a lot of things that did work [and] things that didn't. You learn as you get more experience and hopefully make better decisions than in the past because you have seen situations come up before and you have an understanding of what is needed."
"It's obviously an interesting time at the moment. It's been a tough winter and it would be an interesting challenge if it came along." Moores has been criticised by a number of the senior players he inherited from Duncan Fletcher, such as Marcus Trescothick, Matthew Hoggard and the former captains Andrew Strauss and Michael Vaughan, for failing to make allowances for the difference between county and international cricket.
Newell also spoke on Friday morning about what he would bring to the England job, if chosen for it. "I want to bring an atmosphere of relaxed professionalism into the dressing room," he told Sky Sports News at Trent Bridge. That is without mentioning Kevin Pietersen, who succeeded Vaughan as Test captain but within months recommended to the England and Wales Cricket Board that Moores should be replaced, a move that triggered the removal of both men in January 2009 – denying Moores his dream of leading England in an Ashes series later that year.
"I think that is what I have done here for the past 12 years. I'm used to building and rebuilding teams. That's what I've had to do over the past 12 years – changing players and changing staff and I've got an awful lot of experience to bring. That's what I hope to put on offer. "There is an excitement to have another go at it," Moores said. "There was a frustration last time. When you have a job you always have a vision of where you want to take it. There is a draw to go back and work in that environment because you are working with great players."
"It's been a very difficult winter. Nobody is going to say it's been a great winter for English cricket, but just think back six or eight months when we won the Ashes 3-0 and we were playing some really good cricket. I believe that the talent is there and the player potential is definitely there. It just needs the new coach to put a few things right and I'm sure that'll be done." Jimmy Anderson, one of a younger generation of players who relished Moores's England regime even before they linked up together at Lancashire, argued that he deserved credit for the success the team went on to enjoy under Flower, who had been brought into the setup by Moores when he appointed him batting coach.
Moores' departure would come as a major blow to a county whom he led to an improbable County Championship triumph in 2011. Under his guidance, Lancashire also returned to the top division last summer and are due to begin their new campaign at Trent Bridge this weekend. "He probably started off one of our best periods as a team for many years," Anderson said. "I think Andy Flower would say that the success he had as a coach, he learned a lot from working as assistant to Peter. So yes, I think he deserves some credit."
Moores had been effectively driven out of the England role five years ago after a series of high-profile clashes with Pietersen, whose own central contract has since been terminated following this winter's disastrous Ashes series. Moores was noncommittal over the decision to end Pietersen's international career, saying only "that would not have been made lightly". Having remained close to Flower, it is fair to assume he knows rather more than he is letting on.
Concerning the decision to effectively end Pietersen's international career, Moores said: "I can't really say anything on it because I wasn't involved in it. I can only look at it from afar and it's been well written about. There were decisions that had to be made and I know those decisions wouldn't have been taken lightly. They must have been tough decisions." He said he would be enthused rather than put off by the state of England, which has strong similarities to the situation he inherited from Fletcher in early 2006, after a 5-0 whitewash in Australia and a humiliation in a world one-day tournament, in this case a Twenty20 defeat by the Netherlands as opposed to Andrew Flintoff's adventures with a pedalo.
Giles had widely been considered the favourite to take charge of England in the wake of Flower's departure but his link with England's disastrous Twenty20 campaign in Bangladesh has seen Moores' name increasingly move to the fore. And Lancashire's cricket director, Mike Watkinson, admitted earlier this week that Moores' potential return to the international fold was an inevitable part of the sport. "It is an interesting time," he said. "With any change period it is always an exciting time because it creates opportunities. Not just for those people who are coming in but those who have been involved because it is fresh."
Watkinson said: "It's not the first time and it won't be the last. It's a way of the world that if you have gone out there and recruited someone who you think is one of the best coaches available – which we have – then it is only natural that he will be linked to other positions when they come up." Moores has good relationships with at least two of his rivals and has been in touch with Giles this week over the need to delay Jos Buttler's Lancashire debut to allow him a break, while he will meet up with Newell at Trent Bridge on Sunday for the first County Championship game of the season.
Moores believes his five years out of the role have both refreshed his attitude and improved him as a coach, giving him the chance to make an even greater impression second time round. Newell, who has won two Championships as Nottinghamshire's director of cricket but is regarded as an outsider for the job, will point to the success enjoyed by the similarly unfancied Stuart Lancaster with the England rugby team.
Moores added: "You can't really know about something till you've done it and having done it before you learn lots. "There seems to be a little bit of an obsession that you have to have played international cricket to be an international coach in this country," he said. "I don't really understand that, obviously I don't because I didn't play. But I believe I have got enough experiencing in managing teams and managing people. So somebody like Stuart Lancaster is somebody I would admire for what he has managed to achieve in his sport and also a number of football managers who have achieved at the top level and didn't have playing careers of great note either."
"You reflect a lot on things that worked and things that didn't work. The nature of doing a job for any length of time you get more experience and hopefully make better decisions the more you've done it."