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I think that the cultural credit (or cachet) within the ECB is a very interesting point, but fundamentally Connor is the only other person in the world who could match that of Edwards, so whoever was going to replace her would be having to defer to Edwards. Basically, this is Edwards's chance to...

...implement her vision, and it's far better than the Managing Director is willing to go with that rather than it be a battle between them that the MD would inevitably lose. In that situation Poulton is a good choice as she won't have as clear a vision as Edwards of how things should be done...

...but can point out what has worked in NSW and Australia to help implement that vision. I'd be more concerned about the selector role being too aligned with Edwards but again it's always going to be Edwards call ultimately.

wrt workloads — possibly unfair to make a comparison between male & female bowlers. More realistic might be to look at training & habituation. Most male bowlers train for the heavier workloads of multi-day cricket, then bowl lots of competitive overs.