England cricket team Chris Silverwood ready to help bedraggled England step up the pace • Bowling coach takes over and is tasked with rejuvenating attack• Mark Wood among bowlers to have caught Silverwood’s eye Chris Silverwood led Essex to a first County Championship in 25 years last summer. The ODI series marks the start of Silverwood’s tenure as England’s bowling coach, taking over from Ottis Gibson, who left the role at the end of last summer. Before 2016 he was the club’s bowling coach and assumed that role on various ECB pace programmes and Lions tours. He won six Test caps, the last coming in Perth during the 2002-03 Ashes tour when he injured an ankle. The selectors soon moved on to Jimmy Anderson but many felt Silverwood was given short shrift.

Source: The Guardian January 16, 2018 18:01 UTC