Andrew Strauss takes time to decide whether he wants England managing director role He has also been doing some coaching as well as spending time shadowing various people at the ECB, which has advertised the job of managing director of England cricket on its website. "I've obviously seen Hugh Morris do parts of his job, but not the whole job," Strauss said. One of the things you've got to be very careful with when posts like these become available is to understand them properly. I'm looking into it but they are decisions that need to made over the next couple of weeks and I'll think quite long and hard about whether it's the right time and the right job for me. One impediment facing both former captains is the salary, which has not been disclosed publicly. Morris, who departs to be chief executive of Glamorgan in the January, is thought to have been on £150,000, but that would need to be doubled if not trebled to attract Strauss or Hussain. Also, Strauss has only been retired a year and many feel he is still too close to Andy Flower, England's team director, and the players. One of the job's many specifications states: "The successful applicant will have outstanding leadership and management skills." That was a box Strauss ticked handsomely until his falling out with Kevin Pietersen just over a year ago and the ensuing chaos that brought. That blot, which hastened his retirement, and the fact that his relationship with Flower was so close, should mean that it is too soon for him to do the job. The ECB wants its cricket teams to develop within a healthy culture, not one that is insular, an undesirable trait in danger of engulfing the current Test side. Could Strauss, captain this time last year and so beneath Flower in the pecking order, now hold the team director to account on such matters? Hussain has the requisite distance from the set-up to not be influenced by personal relationships, but is less statesmanlike than Strauss. He does, however, possess a sharp mind and is more forthright than the man who succeeded him in the Test team. Whether he needs the challenge of a new job after becoming a highly respected commentator on Sky is uncertain, but he would improve the public relations with the media, an important facet of the role with sponsors and the public, and one allowed to degenerate under Morris. What either man could do to pep up interest in the current one-day series is difficult to predict with England playing a weakened team and Australia suddenly producing some of the hard-nosed cricket for which they are famous. Both would have had sympathy for Michael Carberry, who was run out for one at Edgbaston on Wednesday after a horrible mix-up with Kevin Pietersen, prior to the match being abandoned to rain. At 32 and a county stalwart for Hampshire, Carberry is in the last-chance saloon with regards to international cricket. Luck always seems to desert those who most need it and he now has two more NatWest Series matches, beginning on Saturday at Cardiff, to make an impact or be consigned to a dotage in county cricket. "Carbs has had a bit of hard time of it, but we've 100 per cent backing for him," said Eoin Morgan, England's acting 50-over captain. He's experienced enough to know that it is swings and roundabouts in this game but he's anxious to get stuck in and prove what type of player he is.