BCCI looking beyond Whatmore - reads the headlines of today's newspaper. Now what else?
What is that we are primarily looking for?
No Indian Coach - we tried many in the past - lots of '-isms' (favoritism, egoism, criticism,...)
No English Coach - cannot think beyond the textbook - they are too orthodox
No Australian Coach - they are simply too good for us - we are not in a position to take it from them
No South African Coach - they are very much concerned about fitness
No Indian Coach - we tried many in the past - lots of '-isms' (favoritism, egoism, criticism,...)
No English Coach - cannot think beyond the textbook - they are too orthodox
No Australian Coach - they are simply too good for us - we are not in a position to take it from them
No South African Coach - they are very much concerned about fitness
No Italian Coach - we don't have a sardar as captain (Just kidding!!!)
A school of thought proposes big names like - Viv Richards, Ranathunga, Brain Lara, Wasim Akram etc ... Please we are not looking for players to fill up the places we are looking for a coach, preferably a proven one. A great player necessarily need not be a great coach - we have already some tried big names like Kapil Dev. Another school says "We can run the show with a manager, bowling and fielding coaches. We just had a manager during 1983 world cup".
Looking at the recent past - We had a foreign coach for close to 8 years now. Ganguly - Wright Combo worked very well for us where as Chappell - Dravid combo could not achieve the needful - now let us leave out the reasons for some other day - of course the naming of the combo itself should tell it all - it never looked like Dravid - Chappell. It seemed like we need a coach who can work in the background and help the players using his keen eye - a technical facilitator . There were some stories, which said Ganguly could have been a better captain during the previous world cup but then it might have been a disaster as it might have resulted in high profile battle of egos between coach and captain. But now if we end up finding a coach who is comfortable with the back office role it might even result in a bigger trouble of both Dravid and the new coach shying away from the limelight. The story might just not end there.
Finally do we know what we want?
It looks like the BCCI and the selection committee has not done their ground work properly. They have given enough hints to media which made it look certain that Whatmore would be the successor of Mr.Chappell. It is the players who actually browsed through their network to find the potential candidates in terms of availability and interest and recommended the names to the committee. Its good that we are still having people like Graham Ford in the queue - Hopefully he occupies the hot seat. His style looks similar to that of John Wright and Dean Jones.It might just work for us!!!
It looks like the BCCI and the selection committee has not done their ground work properly. They have given enough hints to media which made it look certain that Whatmore would be the successor of Mr.Chappell. It is the players who actually browsed through their network to find the potential candidates in terms of availability and interest and recommended the names to the committee. Its good that we are still having people like Graham Ford in the queue - Hopefully he occupies the hot seat. His style looks similar to that of John Wright and Dean Jones.It might just work for us!!!
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