England volition see betwixt six and 10 names arsenic they question Brendon McCullum's successor arsenic Test caput manager and would similar the idiosyncratic successful spot for August's bid against Pakistan, says ECB main enforcement Richard Gould.
McCullum, 44, was sacked arsenic red-ball coach connected Sunday aft 7 defeats successful the past 9 Tests.
England's adjacent Test is against Pakistan astatine Headingley connected 19 August and the squad are besides presently without a skipper aft Ben Stokes announced his retirement during the bid decision by New Zealand successful precocious June.
Gould told BBC Sport: "It volition beryllium a targeted enactment process. We often bash a batch of enactment successful presumption of readying arsenic to succession - I volition ever support a shortlist going of coaches and assorted different positions and successful truth, this presumption is astir apt 1 wherever the shortlist is nary much than six to 10 names globally of a divers nature.
"In presumption of conversations, they volition commencement to hap present and [managing manager of men's cricket] Rob Key volition beryllium starring connected those."
Gould confirmed the England and Wales Cricket Board volition look to instal a caput manager archetypal and that idiosyncratic volition person a say, alongside Key and nationalist selector Marcus North, successful the assignment of a captain.
The caller manager volition person to enactment alongside McCullum, who retains the white-ball role, to equilibrium the champion interests of English cricket successful a crowded cricket calendar wherever players negociate planetary and franchise commitments.
McCullum's four-year reign arsenic Test manager has seen England follow an assertive benignant of cricket, but Gould believes his replacement does not needfully person to reflector that.
"When you look astatine the skills we've got and the talents we've got wrong the team, it is simply a squad that has been playing comparatively assertive cricket," Gould said.
"But determination are ever options for the signifier of play to alteration depending connected what the manager wants and wherever the manager believes those skillsets are.
"It's going to person to beryllium an idiosyncratic that complements the skillsets we've got successful the players and tin bring the precise champion retired of them."
While England would similar McCullum's replacement successful presumption for the three-Test bid against Pakistan, Gould accepts an interim solution whitethorn happen.
"Clearly the individuals that volition beryllium wrong our shortlist volition person different commitments - they whitethorn beryllium planetary cricket, they whitethorn beryllium region cricket, they whitethorn beryllium franchise cricket, and we'll request to enactment done those," said Gould.
"An interim solution could beryllium successful spot if it allows america to get to the champion imaginable determination aboriginal connected down the line."
Gould added that England would besides see a exemplary wherever a manager could proceed their franchise commitments alongside the role.
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