by RivalsDM

Updated: May 8, 2008, 7:38 AM EST Comment

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A report on Thursday morning has linked the 67-year-old former Yorkshire opener to a job as a part-time coach with England, while Derek Underwood was also rumoured to be joining the staff to look after the side's spinners.

Boycott was said to have been lined up to work with Lancashire all-rounder Andrew Flintoff, who has suffered two successive championship ducks, to help with his batting form as he attempts to force his way back into the England squad.

But although the England and Wales Cricket Board admitted to holding "informal conversations" with Boycott, they claimed he is being lined up to help with the age-group teams like the Under-19s rather than work with the senior squad.

"We use people like Nasser Hussain already to go to the National Performance Centre in Loughborough to talk to the age-group teams and the England Lions, and that is what we envisage other former players doing," confirmed an ECB spokesman.

Flintoff is known to admire Boycott and his knowledge of batting and has spoken to him on an unofficial basis in the past, most notably in South Africa three years ago.

The ECB, though, stressed on Thursday that any extension of that relationship would continue to be an unofficial one with Boycott not being lined up to work with the senior players.

They also confirmed that Hugh Morris, the managing director of England cricket, was yet to make any appointments to supplement the current coaching set-up headed by coach Peter Moores.