Schofield To Head Ashes Review Panel

Ken Schofield, who quit as executive director of the PGA European Golf Tour two
years ago, has been chosen to chair the review panel of the disappointing
performance of the England team which lost the Ashes series 5-0.

Schofield will chair the six-man panel which will also include two recent
England captains, Mike Atherton and Nasser Hussain, and former seam bowler Angus
Fraser.

The 60-year old Schofield stated: ‘I’ve been appointed as an independent
voice and I’ll do the job without fear or favour.’

The brief for the panel as dictated by the ECB is ‘to determine how Team
England performances during the period 2003-7 should be improved in order that
England regain the Ashes in 2009 and win an ICC global one-day event during the
period 2007-11.’

Meetings are due to be held in both Australia and England prior to the team’s
departure for the World Cup in the Caribbean and the review group is due to
submit a report to Lord’s before first Test of the summer against West Indies.