Jimmy Anderson says a move to Lancashire will take priority over coaching opportunities with England this summer after agreeing a new one-year contract to play in the County Championship and T20 Blast.
The 42-year-old has been working as a consultant coach for England since his forced retirement from Test cricket last summer and will be part of Brendon McCullum's backroom staff for next month's Champions Trophy in Pakistan. .
However, Anderson has also expressed his intention to continue playing, agreeing a post-season deal with his boyhood club after missing out on a contract in the Indian Premier League. Last year's relegation.
“I'll really play as long as I can,” Anderson said on the BBC Tailenders podcast. “I've enjoyed coaching and we'll see how it fits this summer. But while I'm still able to play, which means I'm fit enough and young enough, I want to do that, but it's not possible in three years. [Playing for Lancashire] It will take priority over everything else in the summer. ”
Mark Chilton, director of cricket at Lancashire University, said: “As it stands, he is fully committed to the county season, both in the County Championship and the Blast, and we are all aware that he has other opportunities. “But he made it clear.” Playing is his top priority.
“It's incredible for our team to share the dressing room with England's all-time greatest wicket-taker and one of the greatest players in cricket.”
Anderson, who coaches England on a freelance basis, is currently training in Abu Dhabi with seamers Jofra Archer, Mark Wood, Gus Atkinson and Brydon Kearse ahead of the team's white-ball tour of India, which begins next week. A warm-up exercise for the Champions Trophy by 8 teams.
Warwickshire have signed Australian Beau Webster for the first three months of the summer following the all-rounder's recent Test debut against India in Sydney.
Meanwhile, the ECB reiterated its call to show further support for Afghan women cricketers at the International Cricket Council's Supreme Management Committee meeting in Dubai. ECB chief executive Richard Gould and his deputy Claire Connor, who wrote to the ICC on the issue last week and his deputy Claire Connor, both sit on the committee, said the Afghanistan men's team's first match is less than six weeks away. However, the meeting ended without any decisions being made. Champions Trophy match in Karachi.
Last week, a group of more than 160 MPs urged the ECB to boycott the Champions Trophy match between England and Afghanistan in Lahore on February 26, citing attacks on women's rights by the Taliban regime. I called out. “We must stand against sex apartheid and call on the ECB to send a firm message of solidarity and hope to the women and girls of Afghanistan that their suffering has not gone unnoticed,” the letter said. It is written.
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However, the ECB has made clear that it does not intend to act alone. “Although there is no agreement within the ICC for further international action, the ECB will continue to vigorously advocate for such measures,” Gould wrote last week. “A coordinated approach across the ICC would be far more impactful than unilateral actions by individual members.”
Gould made good on his promise at Monday's meeting to “continue to advocate aggressively for action,” but decisive action was far from possible. Under their terms of reference, the top executive committee has 20 members, including former England captain Connor. The ECB Deputy CEO and ICC Women's Cricket Chair is the only woman and exists primarily to advise the ICC Board of Directors, and does not take decisions or draft resolutions on the issue.
Among other proposals, the ECB would require the ICC to reallocate some of the funds that would normally go to the Afghanistan Cricket Board to support expelled Afghan women players, most of whom are based in Melbourne. We are calling on you to support the following: The reallocation of this funding will be discussed at the Women's Cricket Committee's next meeting in March.
