In team games like Hockey and Football, coach is the boss. The captain of the team plays second fiddle. Those games are such that they need that kind of set up. But in Cricket, captain is the boss. Coach play assisting role. But after the advent of Bob Simpson and Bob Woolmer, the coaches in Cricket also begin to have prominent place. Bob Simpson along with captain Allan Border had brought a great change in Australian cricket. Bob Woolmer and Hansie Cronje duo was one of the most successful pair in world cricket.
By each passing year, role of coach is getting more attention. There is an illusion that role of coach is more important. But ultimately players and captain are going to do the job. The role of captain gets diminishing and coach gets increasing. Yes we need coaches, not at the expense of the captain. Cricket is a game, which needs captain to be the boss. There is too much emphasis on strategies and fitness than on skills. I accept that strategies and fitness are also important things but not foremost things. In a recent interview, Ian Chappell said that contribution of coach is 5%, contribution of captain is 15% and that of players is remaining 80%.
There is lot of criticism about Greg Chappell that he is the boss and he controls every thing. But who knows the inside truth? Rahul might be having all the say. There must be good relationship between a captain and a coach. I think they have good rapport. I hope Rahul would be more assertive and the boss of the team. There is talk about need of bowling coach for India. BCCI is one of the richest sporting bodies in the world; they can certainly afford to have a bowling coach for Indian team.
Greg could have concentrated on improving batting skills of tail enders or low order batsmen rather than batting order of top order batsmen. Yes, after arrival of Dhoni and Pathan our lower-order batting looks better. But consistency and common sense of remaining lower-order batsmen are worse. See other teams, tail enders are playing with lot of common sense. Our bowling and batting at death are very worse. I know the team management must have addressed these issues. But results are not showing.
By each passing year, role of coach is getting more attention. There is an illusion that role of coach is more important. But ultimately players and captain are going to do the job. The role of captain gets diminishing and coach gets increasing. Yes we need coaches, not at the expense of the captain. Cricket is a game, which needs captain to be the boss. There is too much emphasis on strategies and fitness than on skills. I accept that strategies and fitness are also important things but not foremost things. In a recent interview, Ian Chappell said that contribution of coach is 5%, contribution of captain is 15% and that of players is remaining 80%.
There is lot of criticism about Greg Chappell that he is the boss and he controls every thing. But who knows the inside truth? Rahul might be having all the say. There must be good relationship between a captain and a coach. I think they have good rapport. I hope Rahul would be more assertive and the boss of the team. There is talk about need of bowling coach for India. BCCI is one of the richest sporting bodies in the world; they can certainly afford to have a bowling coach for Indian team.
Greg could have concentrated on improving batting skills of tail enders or low order batsmen rather than batting order of top order batsmen. Yes, after arrival of Dhoni and Pathan our lower-order batting looks better. But consistency and common sense of remaining lower-order batsmen are worse. See other teams, tail enders are playing with lot of common sense. Our bowling and batting at death are very worse. I know the team management must have addressed these issues. But results are not showing.
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