(data supplied by Krishna Tunga www.allthatcricket.com ) It was an interesting series, but the Blackcaps came well under-prepared. The numbers bear out the 2-0 result All teams around the world over the last 10 years or more have reduced the amount of cricket they play as preparation for an overseas…
http://www.theage.com.au/sport/cricket/players-are-the-ones-who-makes-games-great-20151126-gl8wou Having read Martin Flanagan’s recent article, “Players are the ones who makes games great” where he sides with Shane Warne’s view that coaches are virtually irrelevant for good teams, or possibly any teams. I must say that he does get some aspects of professional sport correct. He uses the…
This lesson was highlighted during the Australian Cricket Team’s Ashes tour of England in 2005. We had a very experienced group of players, a team that was expected to continue its winning ways against the old foe. I had a new assistant coach for the tour, Jamie Siddons, who had…
(the next in a series of articles taken from my book, If Better is Possible) One of the most important roles as a coach is to make yourself redundant. In fact it is the role of every parent as they help the growth of their children from the cradle to…
Michael Clarke has presided as captain through a period of highs and lows of Australian cricket. With the release of his Ashes diary, we gain some insight to Michael’s methods of captaincy, his leadership and the importance of team culture as a means to produce high performance outcomes. There is…
It was interesting to watch and listen to Shane on this interview. http://www.news.com.au/sport/cricket/shane-warnes-incredible-spray-in-defence-of-michael-clarke/story-fnu2penb-1227481339909 It did remind me of my time as coach of the Australian cricket team. My role as coach was to always try to get the best from each of us as people, and then combine these skills,…
It is all very well to be YOUR OWN BEST COACH and to KNOW YOUR GAME INSIDE OUT; however if this is not being compared with world’s best, then there is little chance that the athlete will make it to the top, and/or remain there. So the knowledge that athletes…
One of the principal aims of all coaches, be it sport or business or life, is that as coaches we want our athletes, our staff or our individuals to have a clear picture on how they can best perform on task; on daily, weekly, monthly, year round roles that a…
Big data is already reshaping on-field tactics and team selection. It may not be too long before it changes the game as we know it. In 2012, Rajasthan Royals signed Brad Hodge, one of a generation of high-quality Australian cricketers who spent years on the fringes of an all-time great…
It takes a lot to lure Indians away from shopping malls and movie theatres, for house wives to switch off television soaps and watch cricket. But the 2008 Indian Premier League did just that. At the end of the inaugural competition a report tabled by businessmen Al Yasmin Shah and…
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