Nasser Hussain names his top four picks for England Head Coach's position

With English cricket in a transition phase, they are yet to announce a new Test skipper and head coach of the side. While Ben Stokes leads the captaincy race after Joe Root's exit, many options need to be explored for the head coach's seat.

Rob Key, who has been appointed as the Managing Director of Men's Cricket, has a mighty task on his desk and cannot afford to waste time in getting English cricket back on track.

Key, while sharing the roadmap, informed about the strategy he will adopt in choosing the head coach. The former England batter is keen on the idea of having separate coaches for the red-ball and white-ball teams.

"I would split the coaching. Not because it's a lot of work but because it's two very different teams at two different times. I would split the coaching," Key said as quoted to Sky Sports.

"The [white-ball] team could do with a facilitator coach who can just keep delivering what they're doing but challenge them. The Test team needs a completely different style of coach - a driver of culture and environment," he added.

With the coaching debate running hot, former England captain Nasser Hussain shared his opinion on the same and picked four candidates that must be approached for the role. 

While Hussain did not seem very bothered about the white-ball side, he expressed his doubts over the future of England in Test cricket.

"Some of the foreign coaches have lucrative IPL gigs, would they be willing to give that up? The England white-ball team have Morgan in charge, and you could even argue in three or six months' time, Buttler could take over the captaincy and Morgan could end up a coach of the white ball side. I see no problem with that at all, Morgan is a fantastic leader of men," Hussain stated.

"But the Test match side are underachieving, they need a bit of a kick up the backside and a change in culture. The ingredients are there: we are not the best side in the world, but there is no way we are the worst side in the world and that's exactly where we sit."

The cricketer-turned-commentator asserted that one of Gary Kirsten, Ricky Ponting, Justin Langer and Mark Robinson should be asked to take up the head coach's role.

"Those candidates could be Gary Kirsten, Ricky Ponting, Justin Langer, Mark Robinson. That's one thing Andrew Strauss did well early, he got those big decisions right. He stuck with Morgan, he brought in Trevor Bayliss, he got that absolutely spot on. The next three or four decisions Key makes will be vital for the future of our cricket," Hussain concluded.

England's next assignment starts on June 2 with a three-match Test series against New Zealand this summer.