Ashley Giles wants England to play hard on the field but also be the most respected team in the world, having already demonstrated his self-confessed disciplinarian side during his first week as director of cricket.

Five days into the role Giles found himself removing two talented young players, Joe Clarke and Tom Kohler-Cadmore, from the England Lions tour to India after details of a lewd Whatsapp group involving the pair were made public during the court case of their former Worcestershire team-mate, Alex Hepburn.

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The hierarchy at the England and Wales Cricket Board are said to have been shocked by the content of the online chat and following the Bristol incident in 2017 that culminated in Ben Stokes being found not guilty of affray – though he and Alex Hales accept cricketing and financial sanctions for bringing the game into disrepute – acted swiftly. Clarke and Kohler-Cadmore have since been replaced by the former’s Nottinghamshire team-mate Tom Moores and Will Jacks of Surrey.

Speaking about discipline in midweek, Giles said: “How we play and are viewed outwardly is important to [the ECB chief executive] Tom Harrison and to [the chairman] Colin Graves but it is also really important to me. It’s how we are seen and how we are respected.

“We still want people to play cricket hard. We don’t want bland cricket played out on the field. What is that line? It is difficult sometimes to know what it is but I want us to play tough cricket on the pitch and win. But as much as I want us to be the best team in the world, I also want us to be the most respected for how we go about things. That is going to be challenged – there are going to be things that pop up that would go against that. But a big part of my role is to manage that.”

Like his predecessor, Andrew Strauss, Giles intends to sit in on selection meetings and, though he will not have a vote, the former Test spinner expects Jofra Archer to enter the debate for this summer’s World Cup campaign.

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As Joe Root’s Test players acclimatise to conditions in Barbados before the warm-up matches against a President’s XI from Tuesday, one of the island’s most talked about recent exports, Archer, is continuing his domestic ascent 10,000 miles away at Hobart Hurricanes in Australia’s Big Bash League.

The Caribbean tour has come too soon for a 23-year-old talent who, despite representing West Indies Under-19s, is intent on playing for England when he becomes eligible by way of residency – and his British passport – in March. In a recent interview Archer said he had no expectations of an immediate call-up but already he appears close.

Giles certainly appears of that opinion and is now keen to gather the thoughts of the panellists as well as Eoin Morgan, the one-day captain, and Root. He said: “It will be exciting when Jofra is available. Any guys who bowl 90mph-plus are going to create interest and get people out of their seats. How we look after them and when we introduce them is a difficult balance to strike sometimes but it is important.

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“I’ll have to speak to Ed [Smith]. And I’ll need to get some other opinions as well. I need to know what the coaches are thinking and the captains.

“It is a big year and it would be a bit tough on the lad to think he is going to be some sort of messiah coming into the team, but he is an exciting cricketer and his hat will be in the ring.

“His skills are good and it is a massive one-day year. At the same time we’ve got a group of players who’ve done a lot to get us to this point and have performed very well for England so competition for those final places is going to be strong.”