Former Australia fast bowler Geoff Lawson is interested in applying for the vacant job of England bowling coach – but the former Haslingden pro will have to pip two other former Lancashire League paid men to get the post.

Lawson, 52, who has coached Pakistan, said: “In the modern world a coach goes to where the job is. You don’t really mind which country you are dealing with as long as they have good players and a good system.

“The Ashes is only 10 months away and it would certainly be interesting to be involved in the other dressing room.”

The England bowling coach role has become available after Ottis Gibson left to coach his native West Indies.

Former South Africa paceman and Rishton pro Allan Donald is also keen to find out more about the job, as is another ex-Rishton professional Jason Gillespie.

Lawson is among those whose name has been linked with a role likely to be filled by the time England travel to the Caribbean in late April for the ICC World Twenty20.

Michael Kasprowicz, another Australian is also in the frame.

Homegrown candidates are thinner on the ground, with former England seamers Darren Gough, Phil DeFreitas and Steve Watkin among the possibles.