Cricket: Newell replaces Giles at ECB
Ashley Giles has stepped down as an England selector and Mick Newell will take his place on the panel, announced the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) on Friday.
Former England spinner Giles was recently overlooked for the national team’s director of cricket job and Peter Moores was appointed to the role on Saturday.
“Ashley Giles has informed the ECB today that he intends to step down from the panel,” said chairman of selectors James Whitaker in an ECB statement. “I would like to thank him for all his hard work and dedication to the England cause.”
The 49-year-old Newell has coached English county Nottinghamshire for the past 12 years. Giles, former director of cricket at Warwickshire, was in charge of England’s one-day teams from 2012 until this year’s World Twenty20 tournament in Bangladesh when they failed to get past the group stage.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 27th, 2014.