Bumble Blog: Eoin Morgan's England hopes, Kevin Pietersen's future and Winter Olympics

I don't think the next England coach will be appointed until after the T20 World Cup. I suspect the ECB will look at how that competition goes and what the mood is afterwards. Ashley Giles will be one of the coaches and I'm really interested to see who he has alongside him for that competition.

Pietersen will come out of this minus the opportunity of playing Test match cricket, but he will be a far wealthier man through exploring other areas.

Chancing on ice

My thoughts go out to everybody dealing with the floods across the country. It looks absolutely horrific. My mate The Brigadier, who has starred in this blog plenty of times over the years, is living down in Somerset and they are having a rough time. I really hope things work themselves out. I live in Yorkshire these days and so the flooding hasn't affected me, but I have got really into brass bands. Living here, I've been really captivated by the history, graft and nostalgia in the music. A little tip: The Grimethorpe Colliery Band CD is absolutely fantastic in a morning. I've also been enjoying watching the Winter Olympics in the Russian city of Sodit. I'm thinking of entering Vipers in the next one because she'd be brilliant at curling; she's a dab hand with a brush (in fact, I've bought her a new one for Valentine's Day!) I could get her a tracksuit - although she has a boiler suit which she could use for a start - and she could take a bottle of Jif and get that ice spotless. She'll love it. And if that doesn't work out I'll send he down that luge. She loves sledging. As long as she can take the dog on the back she'll be happy. You heard it here first.