Darren Gough has questioned the appointment of Marcus North as England’s new selector, saying the arrival of the Australian will further divide the national team from the domestic game.<\/p>\n
Former England fast bowler Gough was interviewed for the national selector role, losing out to North, who has been director of cricket at Durham since 2018.<\/p>\n
England have been criticised for a perceived disconnect between the national set-up and the county game.<\/p>\n
And North, who played 21 Tests for Australia, is joining England head coach and former New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum on the selection panel.<\/p>\n
“This is a hard role because there’s a lot of repair job to be done,” Gough told the Stick to Cricket podcast.<\/p>\n
“They’re saying they are trying to bring England cricket and county cricket closer together \u2013 I don’t think they are because we’ve got a Kiwi coach and we’ve now got an Australian selector.<\/p>\n
“I don’t think that’s brought the game closer to the county game at all. I do think there’s a big, big repair job there.”<\/p>\n
Also on the England selection panel are director of cricket Rob Key, captains Ben Stokes and Harry Brook, head of player identification David Court and performance director Ed Barney.<\/p>\n
North, 46, played county cricket for six different teams, has an English wife and worked in the club game for South Northumberland before he took over at Durham.<\/p>\n
Speaking last week, Durham head coach Ryan Campbell \u2013 also an Australian \u2013 said North is “as English as any Australian can be”.<\/p>\n
“England cricket have made an unbelievably good choice,” Campbell told BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra.<\/p>\n
“He will test Brendon McCullum, Ben Stokes and Rob Key and will ask the right questions. He will be unbelievable.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Darren Gough has questioned the appointment of Marcus North as England’s new selector, saying the arrival of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-594500","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\/594500","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=594500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}