'Andrew Strauss will appoint new England coach'

Incoming England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) chairman Colin Graves says the appointment of England's new head coach will be made by director of cricket Andrew Strauss.

Moores "left his role" as England coach on Saturday shortly after Strauss had been announced as having been hired to his newly created position.

Graves will start his new job with the ECB on Thursday and he told The Times: "It is Andrew Strauss who takes that call as he builds his team around him. We will not rush into any decision overnight.

"The decision to sack Peter Moores was not a knee-jerk one and this will not be either. Andrew will have an idea who he has in mind and wants to talk to.

"It is his recommendation and he will bring that to [chief executive] Tom Harrison and then to me."

Yorkshire head coach and former Australia fast bowler Jason Gillespie is the bookmakers' favourite to replace Moores and has the backing of ex-England all-rounder Ian Botham.

"The shake-up that the England cricket team has long needed is under way and the selection of Jason Gillespie as coach would be a perfect fit," Botham wrote in his column for the Daily Mirror.

"But he should not be the only new appointment in the dressing room, he should be taking charge alongside Joe Root [as captain].

"It is time for Alastair Cook to move aside and take some of the responsibility for the mistakes that have been made over the last 18 months.

"He [Cook] has seen off almost all the coaches and management from the debacle Down Under [the 2013-14 Ashes whitewash], he has seen [former director] Paul Downton come and go and now Peter Moores, yet he is still captain. How does that work?"