Charlotte Edwards: “The job in England came up quicker than I thought… I haven’t totally ruled it out. But I guess I have other things to focus on right now”; Lisa Keightley will step down from her post as England manager after three years in the role following India’s tour of England this month.
Charlotte Edwards was captain of England for 10 years, but has distanced herself from becoming the next head coach of the women’s team.
Former England captain Charlotte Edwards has distanced herself from becoming England Women’s next head coach, telling Sky Sports: “I don’t think it’s for me at the moment.”
Edwards captained the national team for 10 years until 2016, leading the team to glory in both the Over-50 World Cup and the T20 World Cup in 2009, as well as winning three Ashes series and retaining them. one time.
Edwards currently coaches the Southern Brave in the Hundred, the Southern Vipers in the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy and will lead the Sydney Sixers in the Women’s Big Bash League this winter.
She had been considered the favorite to replace Lisa Keightley with England once she leaves at the end of the summer, but the 42-year-old believes the role may be too soon for her.
“I really don’t think it’s for me at the moment,” Edwards told Sky Sports during England’s T20 series victory over India on Thursday.
“I’m heading to Sydney in a couple of weeks to train there and, to be fair, I’m very happy to be doing what I’m doing. So I’ll probably talk to someone in the next couple of weeks.”
She added: “It just feels at the moment potentially like I have the best of everything and I’m enjoying what I’m doing. And I think that’s really important to me at the moment. And I think I have quite a lot of time to coach England and I’m still pretty young, well I guess I am.
“I think a big part of my planning was to go to the Big Bash and make a team and I felt like that was part of my process to get into international cricket, and that’s still the plan, if I’m being honest.”
Keightley announced in August that she will step down as England manager after three years in the role following India’s tour of England, which ends with the last of three ODIs at Lord’s on 24 September.
“The England job came up quicker than I thought. I didn’t expect it to come up at this point,” Edwards added. “So yeah, I haven’t completely ruled it out. But I guess I have other things to focus on right now.”
“I feel like I’m really developing and so, yeah, I probably need someone to reach out to me and talk to me about it. But I’m definitely kind of happy where I’m at and I’ll continue to do what I do.” ‘I’m doing.”
