Moores to be new England coach

Peter Moores is to be named England's new head coach, BBC Sport understands.

It will be the 51-year-old's second spell in charge of the national cricket side after an ill-fated reign between 2007 and 2009.

He replaces Andy Flower after being chosen ahead of England's current one-day coach Ashley Giles and three other candidates.

Moores is the head coach of Lancashire, who he led to the 2011 County Championship title.

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"In his first tenure as England coach, he paid the price for not being able to work with Kevin Pietersen. Now he has a free hand and can justifiably argue that he deserves another crack of the whip in this post-Pietersen world.

"Moores is a technical and deep thinker, who is very into processes. He would not exactly bring a breath of fresh air after Flower, but he has been around the game for a long time and is highly regarded by the current squad of players."

BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew believes Moores is well suited to the role with an evolving England set-up.

"Things are so delicate around the England camp at the moment. At least Peter Moores knows how the system works," said Agnew.

"He hasn't played international cricket himself and that was an issue as far as Kevin Pietersen was concerned, that credibility of never having been out there and played Test cricket or one-day international cricket himself.

"But Pietersen isn't there any more and it's a very different England set-up now - very much on the back foot, new players coming in and having to really work very hard indeed to get over what has happened this winter.

"And so the environment, one thinks, will be one that Peter Moores will enjoy very much."

Giles had been seen as the early front-runner to take charge of all formats of the game after Flower resigned in the aftermath of England's 5-0 Ashes whitewash in Australia.

Peter Moores factfile

• Born 18 December, 1962 in Macclesfield
• First-class appearances: 231
• Wins county championship with Sussex in 2003
• England coach, April 2007 - January 2009
• Wins county championship with Lancashire in 2011

But the former England spinner seems to have suffered as a result of England's poor showing in the one-day series in Australia and the World Twenty20.

Giles was in charge as England failed to progress beyond the group stage and bowed out with a shock defeat by the Netherlands, which Agnew feels may have counted heavily against the ex-Warwickshire coach.

"Up until that last match of England's World Twenty20 campaign in Bangladesh, there was still the feeling that Ashley Giles would probably have the job," Agnew added.

"But I just think the ECB were so spooked by that result against the Netherlands that I'm afraid his stock plummeted as a result. That was one defeat this winter too many, and that is why Ashley Giles appears to have dropped out of it."

Others under consideration for the post included Nottinghamshire coach Mick Newell, Sussex's Mark Robinson and Australian Trevor Bayliss.

Under Ashley Giles, England went out of the World Twenty20 in the group stage

The England and Wales Cricket Board is set to confirm the appointment of the new coach at Lord's at 10:30 BST on Saturday.

Moores led England in seven Test series, starting with a 3-0 win over West Indies, after replacing Duncan Fletcher as coach before leaving in 2009 following a rift with ex-captain Pietersen.

The former Worcestershire and Sussex wicketkeeper was swiftly appointed as Lancashire coach in February 2009 on a three-year contract, having previously led Sussex to the County Championship title in 2003.

Lancashire had not won the championship outright since 1934 when he arrived. They ended the long wait in 2011 but were relegated 12 months later, bouncing back as Division Two champions last year.

England's next match is a one-day game against Scotland on 9 May.

That precedes a limited-overs and Test series against Sri Lanka, which starts with a Twenty20 match at The Oval on 20 May.

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