20 May 2015 | Cricket
Wicket-keeper Mark Wallace has backed the possible appointment of his former Glamorgan team-mate Jason Gillespie as the next England head coach.
Front-runner Gillespie is one of a clutch of candidates thought to have been contacted by the England and Wales Cricket Board about the vacant position as coach of the national team.
The governing body issued no comment on Wednesday - the eve of the first Investec Test against New Zealand at Lord's - in response to reports ECB cricket director Andrew Strauss has spoken to Gillespie and further talks are in the offing over the next 24 hours.
England are in the hands of caretaker coach Paul Farbrace for the two-Test series against the Black Caps, and he is another feasible contender to replace the sacked Peter Moores.
Ex-Australia fast bowler Gillespie will be locking horns with former team-mate Darren Lehmann as his opposite number, and against his native country of course should he take the reins for England this summer this Ashes summer which gets underway in Cardiff.
Gillespie, nicknamed 'Dizzy' spent the 2008 season with Glamorgan as the overseas player with Wallace backing his credentials.
It is no surprise that Dizzy has done so well in his coaching career with Yorkshire so far, said Wallace.
He is very laid back and very much a players first sort of guy. There is not much that bothers him.
If you talk with the guys at Yorkshire they love him and he would be a very good England coach.
But there are some good candidates out there and I thought Peter Moores was harshly dealt with the cards he was given over his two terms.
Now they have moved on from him, Dizzy would be a good replacement.
He is a great guy who is one of these people who has never forgotten his past.
You won't find many people who will say a bad word about him and that's a good place to start.
Wallace is currently starring for Glamorgan in their LV= County Championship match against Essex as he top-scored with 79 in the second innings to put the Welsh side in position for their first victory of the season.
The 33-year-old also produced a brilliant stumping in the second innings and took four catches in the first innings with Glamorgan in a good position to press on in the final day.
It's nicely set up, we bowled well and could have had four wickets down overnight with a bit of luck, added Wallace.
Hopefully we'll get some early wickets and get our first Championship win of the season. The pitch is up and down, it can get quite flat and there are also periods when there's a little bit in it.
It was a good day for the spectators, the game went to and fro but thankfully we managed to get ourselves on the front foot, get the upper hand for a bit with the bat and to have them chasing over 350 is a great position on any last-day pitch.
Wallace also celebrated becoming the first Glamorgan specialist wicket-keeper to score 10,000 first-class runs solely for Glamorgan in the first innings when he notched up the 14 more he needed to achieve the magical milestone.
It's great, added Wallace, who is also the Professional Cricketers Association (PCA) chairman.
When I first started a long time ago, I didn't think I would score a 1,000 runs for Glamorgan, let alone 10,000.
I would have definitely taken that at the beginning.