English cricket"s director of elite coaching Andy Flower may have been looking ...

While Gary Ballance’s shirtless outing to a Nottingham nightclub on Sunday

night was the sort of thing Moores would rather avoid, there is a sense that

this England team is beginning to find some sort of cohesion.

What they need now is that long-awaited victory to build their confidence – a

quality that seemed sadly lacking on a helpful pitch on Thursday.

The meeting between Flower and Lancaster was part of a coaching pow-wow that

also included Liz Nicholl, the head of UK Sport, and the former England

fly-half Rob Andrew, who runs professional rugby for the Rugby Football

Union.

The conversation no doubt covered those “coaching pathways” so beloved of our

sporting governing bodies, but the priority for Moores and the England

cricket team must be to regain the nation’s respect. Even the

hand-in-the-chest controversy involving James

Anderson and Ravindra Jadeja, blown out of proportion though it has

clearly been, must have felt like another blow to the brand.

With World Cups coming up for both teams next year, there is merit in

exchanging ideas. Lancaster’s team feel as if they are on the verge of some

big results; Moores’s would be happy to beat Bangladesh right now. But then,

as both men are fond of pointing out, success flows from focusing on the

journey rather than the destination.

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