ECB concern over player burn-out

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Since Boxing Day last year England have played 12 Test matches - five overseas - and have won just three (all against West Indies at home) and lost four.

"One of the things we have to look at with players playing in both forms of the game is to how best to manage and work those players, as well as expectations and workloads," said Collier.

England have lost three out of the last four series and in the recent tour to Sri Lanka they were outplayed on almost every day of the three-match series which they lost 1-0.

That result dropped them to fifth in the International Cricket Council's world rankings league table, in which England have played more games than anyone else.

In the same period, which incorporated a World Cup in the Caribbean, England also played 34 one-day internationals.

Collier is aware of the need to protect the players.

"That has been looked at in terms of the number of matches people are limited to, which is 15 Tests and 30 one-day internationals," added the ECB chief.

"That is something we must keep well within, and is something that is happening.

"But what is happening is the intensity of cricket has increased, the number of global events has increased, and that is something the board is reviewing."