article_snippet.sent: The confidential details were sent by email to potential candidates for the post, front-runners for which are former England captains Andrew Strauss, Michael Vaughan and Alec Stewart.
article_snippet.sent: Former England captain Andrew Strauss (pictured here in 2011) is among the front-runners for the job .
article_snippet.sent: It is not expected that the new appointment will have to go to every England game.
article_snippet.sent: But Jonathan Trott will have the main say over coach and captain and set the overall playing strategy.
article_snippet.sent: Chelsea has emerged that Keith Pelley, the Canadian media mogul chosen as chief executive of golf's European Tour, was not the only non-European in the running.
article_snippet.sent: So was the second choice, and there was also an American on the short-list.
article_snippet.sent: The message seems to have been that the Tour didn't want to antagonise the rest of Europe by appointing another Brit following the long, successful reigns of Ken Schofield and George O'Grady.
article_snippet.sent: However, Pelley, despite Pelley lack of golf knowledge, is seen as a good appointment, mainly because of Pelley TV rights acumen.
highlights_snippet.sent: The ECB are creating a new director of cricket role as part of a restructure after the departure of Jonathan Trott .
  