SENSEX
NIFTY
GOLD
USD/INR

Weather

image 11    C

Cricket News

CNMSports

Cricket / CNMSports

details

ECB Appoint Troy Cooley As England Mens Elite Pace Bowling Lead Coach

Wales Cricket Board: The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has appointed Troy Cooley as the mens elite national pace bowling lead coach, where the Australian will oversee the development of fast bowlers across Englands senior mens and pathway teams. Cooley will be responsible for coaching pace bowlers in the England mens 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 Englands Ashes victory at home in 2005. He had been Englands pace bowling coach in Australia for the Ashes and Lions squads in 2021. Cooley also spent 15 years with Cricket Australias National Performance Programme in Brisbane, before recently finishing a stint as the fast-bowling coach at the Board of Control for Cricket in Indias (BCCI) Centre of Excellence (COE) in Bengaluru, where he began work in 2021. Cooley also served as the bowling coach for the Indian women's team during the T20 World Cup held in South Africa in February 2023 and played a similar role for the India men's A team during their England tour in May-June 2025. I am proud of the foundation built in recent years and grateful to the BCCI team, led by VVS Laxman, for their support. Joining the ECB is an exciting opportunity to help shape the next phase of Englands pacebowling future - bringing together the art of performance and the science of longterm development. Englands pacebowling talent and identity are worldclass. My focus is to continue strengthening pathway alignment - technical standards, coaching language, performance expectations by blending practical coaching with evidencebased development so bowlers and coaches can progress with clarity and confidence, said Cooley. His return to Englands set-up comes at a time when the side is in Sri Lanka for a white-ball series, as part of their preparation for the Mens T20 World Cup happening from February 7 to March 8. Englands pacebowling talent and identity are worldclass. My focus is to continue strengthening pathway alignment - technical standards, coaching language, performance expectations by blending practical coaching with evidencebased development so bowlers and coaches can progress with clarity and confidence, said Cooley. Also Read: Live Cricket Score This role will see him work with pace bowlers and coaches at all levels of the mens professional game as we look to build a structure for sustainable success, said Rob Key, Managing Director of England Mens Cricket. Article Source: IANS

21 Jan 2026 8:48 pm