Rowntree returns with Harlequins
LONDON, April 27, (AFP): Former England forwards coach Graham Rowntree will join Harlequins next season, the English Premiership side announced Wednesday.
Rowntree will be a member of a new-look coaching team headed up by John Kingston, promoted from within the existing Stoop set-up to director of rugby.
The changes have come about because the current director of rugby, Conor O’Shea, is leaving Harlequins at the end of the season to become the new coach of Italy.
Rowntree will become the London club’s forwards chief and his appointment leaves Stuart Lancaster as the last remaining member of England’s coaching team at the 2015 World Cup to secure a new job.
Then England coach Lancaster, Rowntree, attacking skills coach Mike Catt and backs boss Andy Farrell all exited after the team became the first host nation be knocked out of a World Cup at the group stage.
Under their new Australian head coach Eddie Jones, England bounced back to win this season’s Six Nations with a Grand Slam.
Farrell is now Ireland’s new defence coach, while Catt will join O’Shea’s Italy backroom staff.
At Harlequins, Rowntree will find himself working with newly promoted head coach Mark Mapletoft, while former England No 8 Nick Easter has been given a player-coach role.
“To have the opportunity to coach at such a prestigious and historic club really excites me,” said former Leicester and England prop Rowntree. playing in the tournament and issued him a show cause notice.
It said the chairman wanted due process to be followed.
“For breaching the clauses of his central contract Younis has been served a show cause notice and has been asked to explain his position to the Board within seven days,” the PCB said.
Chairman Shaharyar Khan said the decision to issue the notice against a quality player had been difficult.
“Younis has been a great servant of Pakistan cricket and a true role model for youngsters. I feel pained making this decision as we have to demonstrate that no one is bigger than the game,” he was quoted as saying in the statement.
West Indies fast bowler Jerome Taylor on Wednesday signed for the Mumbai Indians, replacing Lasith Malinga who was ruled out of this season’s Indian Premier League (IPL) with a knee injury.
The 31-year-old Taylor will join the Ricky Ponting-coached side for the rest of the Twenty20 tournament after the required paperwork was completed, India’s cricket board said in a statement.
The Jamaican played just one match for the West Indies, in the group stages, during the World Twenty20 earlier this month when the Caribbean side clinched the title for the second time, defeating England in the final.
Sri Lanka on Wednesday brought back former skipper Sanath Jayasuriya to be the chief of a new panel of cricket selectors, following the country’s abortive defence of the Twenty20 World Cup.
The four-member panel was brought in to replace a previous ad-hoc committee headed by former Test player Aravinda de Silva, which was set up just hours before the team was due to leave for India. Sunrisers Hyderabad bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar bowls during the 2016 Indian Premier League (IPL) Twenty20 cricket match between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Rising Pune Supergiants at The Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium
in Hyderabad on April 26. (AFP) recent run to the World Twenty20 final at Kolkata’s Eden Gardens ground, taking six wickets in a tournament where his side finished runners-up to the West Indies.
It is nearly a year since Jordan, 27, made the last of his eight Test appearances but fellow seamer Mark Wood’s ankle operation last week might have taken him closer to a recall in the five-day format.
However, the IPL will still be in progress when England begin their home Test season against Sri Lanka at Headingley next month.