England Have The Chance To Hire The Best
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The only person in my mind who is capable of making the difference required. The other candidates don't come close and are out of their depth.
The England Cricket Board are mulling over applicants to replace Trevor Bayliss who is stepping down as their coach. I had no idea Gary Kirsten was going to put his name in the hat as he is a busy man these days. He runs his own cricketing schools of excellence and has so much experience to part on they would be dumb to turn him down.
When you look at the other candidates that are mentioned Graham Ford, Chris Silverwood, Graham Thorpe and Alec Stewart even if you combined all of these candidates together they would fall short of Gary Kirsten. Graham Ford has been around the block and hasn't done much if we are to be brutally honest. He took over from Kirsten with the South African team and didn't have to do very much but just continue what was already in place.
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He now has Academies dotted around the world.
Gary Kirsten took India to the number one spot and won a few trophies with them and will do the same to England if given the chance. England have not had a coach of his caliber yet and it is like the equivalent of a Pep Guardiola of the cricket world. He does things differently and challenges a team to become a team and not just a group of players.
If England select him as their next coach players will improve as that is what he does. Mentally and physically the team will be stronger and they will turn losing positions into winning ones. Gary is not always available as I mentioned before he has his various schools of excellence and they should take him now whilst he is available. Have a Thorpe and a Stewart work under him so in 4 or 5 years time the stability is passed on and there are no drastic changes. Too many times when coaches leave all their work is lost and the team loses it's way only having to be rebuilt yet again.
Good article, that really points to how important a great coach is to a team. It is also on the players to adapt to the coach as well. I don't know much about the world of cricket but I've seen in some other sports were players egos get in the way. From the sound of it, give him a few years and can make big changes with the English Team.
Graham Ford seems like a veteran in the game and I'm thinking this factor might just count, I'm definitely not a professional it's just my opinion but what do you think?
No Graham Ford is not even close and has been around the world taking any coaching job he can get his hands on. Gary on the other hand turns jobs down and only commits when he has the time. He has the time now and England should welcome this opportunity. He is that good.
Hahaha but going around might mean a little bit of experience don't you think?
Experience doesn't necessarily mean good though. Hopefully they will look into each person more deeply then just where they have coached.
Haha I know I just feel the man himself would feel he's got experience I don't necessarily mean he's good
I was referencing what Crypto said haha. I was agreeing with you.
He has been all over but it doesn't mean he is any good ,but more the opposite. If he was any good he would have kept one of his previous jobs.
I know over here programs have this silly idea that hiring a hometown/state person is the best move even if they are not the best candidate. I just find that silly.
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