Matthew Mott has overseen a dominant era for Australia Women, who won the 50+ World Cup earlier this year after dominating England at Ashes; Mott will split England head coaching responsibilities with Brendon McCullum, who was appointed to the red-ball job last week.
New England white-ball coach Mathew Mott sees “similarities” to his former role in charge of Australia’s women’s side, while he has already spoken to captain Eoin Morgan and says the two are “aligned” on how he should play team.
During her seven years in charge of the Australian women’s team beginning in 2015, Mott had a period of incredible success culminating in a dominant win over England in the multi-format Ashes series earlier in the year and a World Cup victory over 50 years old. last month.
In addition to those achievements, Mott’s team was successful in two T20 World Cups, came top in four consecutive Ashes campaigns and had a record 26-match ODI winning streak that stretched from 2018 to 2021.
Mott takes charge of a team from England who are the reigning 50+ world champions and one who sit second in the ODI and T20 world rankings, led brilliantly by Morgan.
Mott sees parallels in the two works, saying cricket.com.au: “A large part of the line of questioning in the interviews was about ‘how do you see the team moving forward?’ And I see a lot of similarities. [with his previous job] – taking charge of a pretty good team that is in a good place, with a good leader in Eoin Morgan.”
Mott will start work next month, in time for England’s three-match ODI series against the Netherlands in Amsterdam, a series he has already begun planning with his employer.
“Eoin and I talked about taking some of the opportunities, some of the messaging that I believe in and seeing where that alignment is,” Mott said,
“We seem very aligned with our overall philosophy and how we think the team should play, but it will be nice to have the chance in the playgroup to talk about that a little bit more, answer any questions and just develop that connection.”
“The team is doing pretty well, it’s just a matter of how we get those incremental gains, because that sustained success is what England craves.
“They’re pretty comfortable because they have a good team and good depth, but trying to compete in every tournament is what they want to do. Hopefully the experiences that I’ve had with what we’ve done [with Australia] I could just add another layer to that.”
The next major milestone for this white-ball England team is October’s Twenty20 World Cup in Australia, as Morgan’s men look to unite 50 and 20 titles.
Drawing again on her experience, Mott said: “I don’t think internally with the women’s team we’ve really talked about having to win World Cups, as such.
“It was more like being present, staying in the moment, and if you keep doing that, day after day, the end result falls your way.”
