Andy Flower: I want my players to have opinions

Evening Standard

There has already been plenty of Australian barracking that England's best players are from South Africa but for England's director of cricket, Andy Flower, this diversity gives them the edge. "Australia has never had a foreign coach. I don't know if they ever will," he says.

"In England, we are a diverse community. I'm part of that as a Zimbabwean. You've got a Sikh in Monty Panesar, an Australian fast-bowling coach, a Pakistani spin-bowling coach, one of the most patriotic Englishmen in Graham Gooch and our fielding coaches are Zimbabwe-born but have grown up in England.