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In front of the High Profile Testing series against India, the National Clicet team of England goes to a new direction. According to The Telegraph, the best data experts from England, Nathan Leamon and Freddie Wilde, give up their roles ahead of the home test series against India.
Nathan Leamon and Freddie Wilde helped the England National Clicet team win the 2019 Hate World Cup and the T20 2022 World Cup. They used computer numbers and models to guide team teams and game tactics. But things began to change when Brendon McCullum became the coach of the test team in 2022 and later took over the white ball teams in 2024.
Parents of England with data experts ahead of the India series
According to a telegraph report, Brendon McCullum believes to keep things simple. The main coach encouraged players to trust their instincts instead of relying too much in data and statistics. Under his term, there are not many team meetings and there are fewer support staff during the games.
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It is now expected that English players will take more responsibility for their own preparation and performance after the informed sacking of the data expert in data. The team management also believes that the data is most useful in franchise leagues like the IPL than in the international cricket.
In the IPL, teams play very often and players’ weaknesses become clearer, but in the international cricket, players are harder to predict, so using too many data may not help as much as the English team management.
In the meantime, Nathan Leamon and Freddie Wilde will not be part of the next series of white balls against the western Indies, and there will be no replacement for them, as the current team test analyst, Rupert Lewis, will manage both red and white ball formats.
This movement will not only save money, it will also create a better coordination between the teams in the test and the white balls. Since the World Cup of the T20 of 2022, the performance of England has been poor.
They have won only 3 of the 15 games in the main events and have had disappointing campaigns in the World Cup of Hate 2023, in the World Cup of 2024 T20 and in the Trophy of Champions ICC 2025.
Leamon was especially close to former Captain Eoin Morgan. He even sent secret signs during matches to suggest the best bowling options. He also worked with IPL and PSL teams and is now more likely to be focused on T20 leagues. Wilde will continue to work with the RCB.
England will continue to use ihawk camera
However, England will still use some tools like Ihawk cameras to keep track of the bowl speed and look at the player’s statistics, but move away from the style driven by numbers. Its goal is now in the freedom, experience, instinct and confidence of the players in the players themselves, not the numbers.
Especially England was using data to evaluate wider attributes while selecting the team, and Shoaib Bashir and Tom Hartley were chosen for India’s Tour last year to make the most of their selected qualities. The height and high release point of Shoaib Bashir and Tom Hartley played a key role in their selection.
