Stephen Fleming is expected to be named as England’s Test coach, after impressing the England and Wales Cricket Board in a series of interviews over the past two weeks. Fleming stood down as head coach of the Indian Premier League franchise Chennai Super Kings – as well as their subsidiaries Joburg Super Kings in South Africa’s SA20 and Texas Super Kings in America’s Major League Cricket – this month. View image in fullscreen New Zealand’s Brendon McCullum (left) and Stephen Fleming celebrate the wicket of England’s Andrew Strauss in the third Test at McLean Park in Napier in March 2008. “The way Stephen Fleming led the team tactically was something that really resonated with me,” he said in 2019. “He’s one of my great mates as well now, and what I loved about Stephen Fleming is whilst on the field it looked quite instinctive there was always scores and scores of detail in behind.