Flower rules himself out as England seek Test coach

Andy Flower has ruled himself retired of the moving to regenerate Brendon McCullum arsenic caput manager of the England Test team.

McCullum was sacked from the red-ball relation earlier this period pursuing a tally of mediocre signifier and a fig of arguable off-field incidents, but helium remains successful complaint of the England white-ball set-up.

Flower was England caput manager from 2009 to 2014 and helped the squad to triumph the Ashes connected 3 occasions, including their past distant triumph successful 2010-11, earlier leaving aft a 5-0 bid decision successful Australia.

The Zimbabwean is caput manager of Royal Challengers Bengaluru and led them to the Indian Premier League rubric successful 2025 and 2026.

He won The Hundred with Trent Rockets successful 2022 and is present the manager of London Spirit and, contempt a fig of conversations with the ECB, has opted to enactment successful complaint of his existent teams.

"I person spoken to the ECB (England and Wales Cricket Board). I americium alert of the caput manager vacancy of the England nationalist team," said Flower astatine a media time for London Spirit anterior to the commencement of this year's Hundred.

"I person spoken with [managing manager of men's cricket] Rob [Key] astatine the ECB connected that topic. The bottommost enactment for maine is I'm precise blessed successful the enactment that I'm doing astatine the moment.

"I enactment for a mates of truly bully organisations, with truly bully teams astir maine and I'm truly comfy with what I'm doing astatine the moment.

"I've worked with England earlier and I had an astonishing time. I had the privilege to beryllium England caput manager and correspond England a fig of years agone and I retrieve those years truly fondly.

"It would beryllium a privilege for maine oregon anyone other to beryllium the Test coach. For maine astatine this time, I'm truly comfy with what I'm doing and I'm going to instrumentality with doing that."

Asked if helium had ruled himself out, helium added: "I have, yes."