Andrew Flintoff: ECB have no comment on report former England captain to stop working with white-ball team | Cricket News

The ECB have declined to comment on a report that Andrew Flintoff will stop working with the England team ahead of the upcoming T20I and ODI series against Australia.

The former England captain and all-rounder has spent the past year working with the team and had been tipped as a potential successor to the recently departed white-ball head coach Matthew Mott.

However, the Daily Telegraph reported on Thursday that Flintoff’s work with the team on a short-term consultancy basis would not continue following the failure of him and white-ball captain Jos Buttler to gel during the T20 World Cup in June.

The ECB had no comment to make on the report when approached by Sky Sports News.

Flintoff, who played a starring role in England’s 2005 Ashes triumph, began working with the England national team set-up last year, first doing some scouting work and coaching with the age-group teams.

The 46-year-old stepped up to join the staff of the senior men’s white-ball team on a consultancy basis in September last year and was an assistant as England reached the semi-finals of this year’s T20 World Cup in the West Indies and USA.

Flintoff’s coaching ambitions were further underlined by his appointment as head coach of the Northern Superchargers men’s team for this year’s edition of The Hundred, where the side won five games and narrowly missed out on the play-off stage.

He was understood to have been seen as a potential future England head coach by ECB managing director Rob Key as well.

However, according to the Daily Telegraph report, stand-in white-ball head coach and former England opener Marcus Trescothick will be given the opportunity to put together his own coaching staff for the three T20Is and five ODIs against Australia next month.

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