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He did far more than that.
He didn't say that was all he did, just picked out an example.
He did far more than that.
It's the most pleasurable part, yes, but it's not his most notable achievement. The 4 consecutive series victories in 2000 and 2000\01 were those.
I'd not imagine at 7 years old you would fully have appreciated them, but I may be wrong.
The way to measure a coach is not purely by, as Gideon Haigh once said, "the banal ledger of wins and losses". It's about what he brings to the team. Now, for me, the 2005 Ashes victory could and very possibly would have been achieved had Duncan Fletcher been taken ill in April and been unable to be involved at any point in the summer. However, I don't believe the same is true of the multiple achievements of 2000 and 2000\01. Most of the high-calibre players (Atherton, Hussain, Stewart, Thorpe, Cork, Caddick, Gough - to an extent even White) had been around for years - it's just that, for any massive multitude of reasons, they'd produced the goods often enough or at the same time for the team to get the results. Most of the newer players (Vaughan, Giles, to an extent White in that he'd had a very long absence) were people Duncan Fletcher had both spotted the ability in and helped to maximise it where previously it had not been.Take that back Richard
Surely some people may see the most pleasurable part, as his most notable achievment?