Fletcher would consider Gough bid

Gough is one of the names linked with England's vacant bowling coach job following the departure of Troy Cooley.

"I would love to be involved in some way," he said. "It's nice to be linked but we will have to wait and see.

"Coaching-wise I have only got level one and first thing I would have to do is pass all my coaching awards."

England coach Duncan Fletcher says he would welcome any application while paceman Steve Harmison is keen for Gough to take the job.

I still bowl very good yorkers and I just want to play Darren Gough

And the Essex bowler, who won the BBC's Strictly Come Dancing TV show on Saturday, believes that his close relationship with the England players would help him in the role.

"It is nice when the players also say it would be perfect if I got it," he added.

"I get on so well guys. They have been texting me and voting for me on the show from Pakistan, we are close and that is an added bonus.

"If that role is something that the players, management and public want then I would have to seriously think about it."

Cooley was renowned for the use of technology and bio-metrics in his coaching but Gough says he would have a different style.

"I've got a role at Essex called 'bowling mentor' which is what I prefer to be rather than a bowling coach," said Gough.

"I like the old-fashioned bowling coach role. When the boys are down he is there to lift them up and when they are up he keeps them up.

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"I know what it is like, when you come off the pitch after a long hard day, the last thing you need is someone telling you what to do. You want to lift them."

Gough, who has taken 235 wickets in 157 one-day internationals, has retired from the England Test side and was overlooked for the one-day series in Pakistan because he wanted to spend more time with his family.

And despite his success on the dance floor, the 35-year-old has not given up on returning to the one-day line-up for the series with India next March.

"I do miss cricket and I do want to play again," he said. "England are out in Pakistan and it's hard for them but they have some young boys who are doing well.

"One thing they are missing is someone to bowl at the end of an innings, it's such a vital time but the big question would be whether I would get picked again.

"I want to because I want to play in a World Cup.

"It's not up to me, it's up to the coach, captain and selectors. I am not a spring chicken anymore but I still bowl very good yorkers and I just want to play."