MUMBAI: Former New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum will quit as the Kolkata Knight Riders coach at the end of IPL 2022 as he's set to become the England Test team's head coach, it's reliably learnt.
The English Cricket Board could soon make a formal announcement about McCullum's appointment. McCullum will thus be the second KKR coach that the ECB would have hired. He would follow in the footsteps of Trevor Bayliss, under whom England transformed their white-ball game.
England's previous coach Chris Silverwood resigned in February in the aftermath of their 0-4 Ashes defeat in Australia, with Paul Collingwood taking over the job on an interim basis. The ECB had invited applications for different coaches for England's Test and white-ball teams.
McCullum's first assignment as the England coach will be a home series against New Zealand. England and New Zealand are scheduled to play three Tests at Lord's, Nottingham and Leeds from June 2. Rob Key is the new Managing Director of the England men's team.
