Cricket Coach for Kenya

[umop 3p!sdn]

He did far more than that.

He didn't say that was all he did, just picked out an example.

 

[Richard]

And it's the same bloody example everyone always picks-out, and it's not IMO even the most notable part of Duncan Fletcher's career.

 

[Jamee999]

Hahahahahaha. Winning the Ashes ISN'T the biggest part of Duncan Fletcher's coaching career? That's utterly ridiculous!

 

[Richard]

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.

 

[umop 3p!sdn]

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.

Take that back Richard

Surely some people may see the most pleasurable part, as his most notable achievment?

Anyway on topic, I'm not sure on who will take over the Kenya job really. Whoever does it's going to take alot of work. it would be great to see another team progress in the ODI / 20twenty format like we have seen with Bangladesh, who have come on leaps and bounds.

 

[Jamee999]

He's not calling you 7. He's pointing out I was 7 at the time of his 00-01 run.

 

[Richard]

Take that back Richard

Surely some people may see the most pleasurable part, as his most notable achievment?

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.

The Ashes 2005 victory had to do with an impossibly large number of things - no list could ever come close to being exhaustive - but Duncan Fletcher's influence would not be that high on one of mine. That's not to say I wish someone else had been in charge - even now, I still think we'd probably be better-off with him at the helm.

 

[andruid]

So its agreed then Whatmore for Kenya

 

[Beamer]

I would guess that Whatmore has applied for the Windies job. The WICB are drawing up a list of applicants now. I really hope he has anyway.

Btw, Roger Harper has left Kenya to coach St Lucia's professional 20-20 team for the next few years.,

 

[brockley]

Greg Blewitt?

 

[andruid]

Latest: Former International Alfred 'Boi' Njuguna has been put in temporary charge of the national teamand apparently the applications are already starting to flow in according to Cricket Kenya CRICKET: SA tour is one we would like to forget, says Odoyo
Hopefully theres a few big names in there

 

[andruid]

Another update on the situation
CRICKET - Suji now joins coaching team