| Date: 2-6 June Time: 11:00 BST Venue: Lord’s |
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To almost everyone who knows him, Chris Silverwood is ‘Spoons’.
From now on, he wears a different tag too – that of the most powerful man in the England team, no longer only the coach, but also with responsibility for selection.
On the one hand, you might wonder how it has taken until 2021 for England to move away from the traditional model of separation between coach and head selector. After all, the coach is the one trying to deliver the results, and football and rugby bosses have had that sort of power for years.
Still, for all of his achievements and clear popularity with the players, it is still something of a leap for England to go all in on 46-year-old Silverwood.
By his own admission, he fell into coaching. When he was playing for Middlesex…
