Brailsford is sounded out to help shape the future of English cricket

Sir Dave Brailsford has been sounded out to join the high-performance review team that will help shape the future of English cricket.

Brailsford, 58, is a serial winner as a coach in cycling, overseeing Olympic golds and Tour de France titles with Great Britain and Team Sky/Ineos Grenadiers, and drawing admiration from Sir Andrew Strauss as a result.

Strauss has been tasked with carrying out an exhaustive audit of the English game in a bid to improve fortunes on the global stage and is expected to put together a panel of individuals with expertise in other sports and industry.

Cricket has regularly reached beyond its own boundaries in times of self-reflection. Notably in 2007 when Ken Schofield, one of golf’s leading administrators, headed a post-Ashes review.

As recently as six months ago, Newcastle’s technical director Dan Ashworth, then at Brighton, joined Warwickshire’s cricket audit committee to offer advice on developing high performance environments.

Earlier this week, when addressing the media in Bridgetown, Strauss spoke of being bold and ambitious in driving change.

Brailsford, whose potential involvement was revealed by Telegraph Sport on Saturday, provided input as the England football team prepared for the 2014 World Cup and later advised the Football Association on establishing a world-class decision-making structure.

The initial stages of the review will revolve around high performance principles and how to deliver on them simultaneously through a developmental pathway and domestic structure to the national team. The independence external opinion provides is viewed as crucial in ensuring vested interests do not get in the way of Strauss’ ambitious goal to make England the number one side across all