BCCI has dallied with foreign coaches with different results….. first it was the New Zealand left hander John Wright in 2000 and India enjoyed a remarkable winning percentage of over 40 in Test cricket, winning 21 out of 52. In 2012, Joe Dawes – Who ? and he replaced Eric Simons. A land which had Kapil Dev, Javagal Srinath, Madanlal, Karsan Ghavri or bowlers like Raju Kulkarni, Thirumalai Ananthanpillai Sekhar, Venkatesh Prasad, Balwinder Singh Sandhu,Ajit Agarkar, Atul Wassan, Sanjeev Sharma, Yograj Singh or lesser known players like Rajinder Singh Ghai, Salil Ankola, Vivek Razdan, Debashish Mohanty and more - none fit enough !! Dawes, played 76 first-class matches for Queensland between 1997 and 2005, often having to wait his turn behind Australia bowlers Michael Kasprowicz and Andy Bichel. His career was cut short by a knee injury following which he became involved in coaching. So somebody who never bowled at an International level was our new bowling coach. Moving away from Cricket, after Michael Nobbs' removal as head coach of the Indian hockey team, the clamour for a 'desi' coach grew and former players advocated the need of an Indian coach who would understand the 'Indian mindset'. There have been times when Coaches try a new ball game and players instead of improving get hurt…. Cricketers have twisted their foot playing football a day before the match….Roelant Oltmans, on his part rode to controversy with his plan to teach English language. With all this in the background, one thought, Anil Kumble would fit the bill with his communication skills, computer knowledge, photographic skills besides knowing the players well. Things appeared good ! as India was winning at home – and when win comes, everything gets forgotten. Now cracks are surfacing !!
What Skills Would a Coach Impart to Top Performers !?!?
Posted on the 01 June 2017 by Sampathkumar Sampath
Every
game has its charm ~ Ivan Lendl, Sunil Gavaskar, Sachin Tendulkar, Anil Kumble would look madly methodical; you always have
Viv Richards, Sehwag, John Mcenroe and
more - the debate would live : is it
natural talent or right technique shaped by coaching ! – which will succeed ?
In
olden days, only those who struggled in the classroom would go for private
tuitions; for others the class room deliverance was quite enough to
succeed. With years, the concept changed
– now a days, coaching is seen as an effective tool for optimizing
efficiency. One need to be a good coach
– need not have the best of the abilities in the field and need not have
succeeded at the top is another theory.
A few days after
Mahendra Singh Dhoni hit a four off the last ball to give Rising Pune
Supergiant victory over Sunrisers
Hyderabad in IPL 2017 game, Tom Moody was asked if Moises Henriques,
who had conceded just four in his solitary over, should have bowled the 20th
instead of Siddarth Kaul. Moody, the Hyderabad coach, said Henriques didn’t
usually bowl at the death in Twenty20s, but “should have bowled another over in
the middle of the innings because he is experienced.” Moody, though, backed the
judgment of David Warner, the captain. How
much should a coach intervene and can he do that on the field is also a raging
Q ! - though not legitimized, Bob Woolmer, South Africa’s coach, tried it
against India in the 1999 World Cup in England. Hansie Cronje, the captain, and
Allan Donald, the team’s pace spearhead, had devices attached to their ears as
Woolmer passed on his observations during the course of play.
Away, It
took a season under Jose Mourinho to turn Ander Herrera into the player
Manchester United thought they were getting. The Spanish midfielder’s man of
the match award in the Europa League final was symbolic - not just for his
peerless performance in Stockholm, but his rise under a famously demanding
manager. It was a measure of how Mourinho has transformed Herrera after
inheriting a player so inhibited by Louis van Gaal he practically needed to be
reprogrammed when the new man took charge. The 27-year-old was virtually broken
down and reconstructed as Mourinho looked for a man capable of becoming the
heartbeat of his midfield. Even as the
Press gave so much of credit to Mourinho, was it the talent of the player or
the shaping by the coach and can such transformation happen at that level ?
Champions Trophy
2017 starts today – now a days, Cricket is played more out of the field much
before the events start happening. A
great reliance is placed on the Coach and other support staff and each team
have big complement of them, For 2011
WC, Indian Foreign Coach, was supported by Mental conditioning coach, Fitness
trainer, Physio, Masseur, Performance analyst, Bowling and fielding coaches and
more .. .. ..
Aussies take the
cake for having have brazenly adopted their ‘winning is the only thing’
approach – have tried to tame opponents by bullying them, sledging them and
whatever is possible .. .. a few years
back, when Ponting resigned, their new ir coach wanted them to submit a
presentation, some players did not and .. .. ..
Often, it is stated that a good Manager is who gets out the best of his
team and not the one who openly quarrels with them……. Mickey Arthur is known to be a disciplinarian …. This
is no school either… Coaching isn’t just
about being the school master and waving the cane around. Coaching is more about relation management
and team building we are told. In a
brazen move that hit the headlines - Shane Watson, James Pattinson, Mitchell
Johnson and Usman Khawaja were axed for
failing to give a presentation on how they could improve following their
embarrassing innings defeat in the second Test.
It was a 3 point PPT failure that did them out !
BCCI has dallied with foreign coaches with different results….. first it was the New Zealand left hander John Wright in 2000 and India enjoyed a remarkable winning percentage of over 40 in Test cricket, winning 21 out of 52. In 2012, Joe Dawes – Who ? and he replaced Eric Simons. A land which had Kapil Dev, Javagal Srinath, Madanlal, Karsan Ghavri or bowlers like Raju Kulkarni, Thirumalai Ananthanpillai Sekhar, Venkatesh Prasad, Balwinder Singh Sandhu,Ajit Agarkar, Atul Wassan, Sanjeev Sharma, Yograj Singh or lesser known players like Rajinder Singh Ghai, Salil Ankola, Vivek Razdan, Debashish Mohanty and more - none fit enough !! Dawes, played 76 first-class matches for Queensland between 1997 and 2005, often having to wait his turn behind Australia bowlers Michael Kasprowicz and Andy Bichel. His career was cut short by a knee injury following which he became involved in coaching. So somebody who never bowled at an International level was our new bowling coach. Moving away from Cricket, after Michael Nobbs' removal as head coach of the Indian hockey team, the clamour for a 'desi' coach grew and former players advocated the need of an Indian coach who would understand the 'Indian mindset'. There have been times when Coaches try a new ball game and players instead of improving get hurt…. Cricketers have twisted their foot playing football a day before the match….Roelant Oltmans, on his part rode to controversy with his plan to teach English language. With all this in the background, one thought, Anil Kumble would fit the bill with his communication skills, computer knowledge, photographic skills besides knowing the players well. Things appeared good ! as India was winning at home – and when win comes, everything gets forgotten. Now cracks are surfacing !!
BCCI has dallied with foreign coaches with different results….. first it was the New Zealand left hander John Wright in 2000 and India enjoyed a remarkable winning percentage of over 40 in Test cricket, winning 21 out of 52. In 2012, Joe Dawes – Who ? and he replaced Eric Simons. A land which had Kapil Dev, Javagal Srinath, Madanlal, Karsan Ghavri or bowlers like Raju Kulkarni, Thirumalai Ananthanpillai Sekhar, Venkatesh Prasad, Balwinder Singh Sandhu,Ajit Agarkar, Atul Wassan, Sanjeev Sharma, Yograj Singh or lesser known players like Rajinder Singh Ghai, Salil Ankola, Vivek Razdan, Debashish Mohanty and more - none fit enough !! Dawes, played 76 first-class matches for Queensland between 1997 and 2005, often having to wait his turn behind Australia bowlers Michael Kasprowicz and Andy Bichel. His career was cut short by a knee injury following which he became involved in coaching. So somebody who never bowled at an International level was our new bowling coach. Moving away from Cricket, after Michael Nobbs' removal as head coach of the Indian hockey team, the clamour for a 'desi' coach grew and former players advocated the need of an Indian coach who would understand the 'Indian mindset'. There have been times when Coaches try a new ball game and players instead of improving get hurt…. Cricketers have twisted their foot playing football a day before the match….Roelant Oltmans, on his part rode to controversy with his plan to teach English language. With all this in the background, one thought, Anil Kumble would fit the bill with his communication skills, computer knowledge, photographic skills besides knowing the players well. Things appeared good ! as India was winning at home – and when win comes, everything gets forgotten. Now cracks are surfacing !!