Since departing his role with England 20 years ago, Cooley has worked with Cricket Australia and India’s national academy.<\/p>\n
He will work above Neil Killeen, who was appointed England’s elite fast-bowling coach in 2023.<\/p>\n
Although Cooley’s time will not wholly be dedicated to the England first team, it is another addition to a backroom staff McCullum had previously moved to slim down.<\/p>\n
England went to the Ashes without a specialist fielding coach and missed 18 chances across the series.<\/p>\n
Hopkinson left the set-up at the end of 2024, just as McCullum added England’s white-ball teams to his Test remit.<\/p>\n
The 44-year-old former Sussex batter now returns for the T20 leg of the tour of Sri Lanka and the World Cup that follows.<\/p>\n
“In white-ball cricket it makes an even bigger difference \u2013 you can win or lose a game from a dropped catch, or a catch,” said England white-ball captain Harry Brook.<\/p>\n
“We felt like it was a good decision to bring in a fielding coach and try to make that area of our game a little more neat. It can win you a game.<\/p>\n
“Hoppo’s a very good fielding coach and we’re looking forward to having him back.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since departing his role with England 20 years ago, Cooley has worked with Cricket Australia and India’s national…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-382876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}