National performance programme

Wales Cricket Board: The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has appointed Troy Cooley as the men’s elite national pace bowling lead coach, where the Australian will oversee the development of fast bowlers across England’s senior men’s and pathway teams.

Cooley will be responsible for coaching pace bowlers in the England men’s side as well as the England Lions and Young Lions squads. Cooley, 60, returns to a role he previously held between 2003 and 2006, a period that included England’s Ashes victory at home in 2005. He had been England’s pace bowling coach in Australia for the Ashes and Lions squads in 2021.

Cooley also spent 15 years with Cricket Australia’s National Performance Programme in Brisbane, before recently finishing a stint as the fast-bowling coach at the Board of Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI) Centre of Excellence (COE) in Bengaluru, where he began work in 2021.