The national cricket team’s coach has grown into the role he inherited prematurely and is becoming less intransigent and more flexible.
The Indian cricket team says it has no part in the administrative problems between Cricket SA and the Board of Cricket Control in India.
Former England coach Duncan Fletcher will take over as India’s new cricket coach from South African Gary Kirsten.
World Cup coach Gary Kirsten said he has been approached over the vacant South Africa job, the BBC reported on Sunday.
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/ 18 November 2008
Former England coach Duncan Fletcher returned to international cricket on Monday as a consultant to South Africa head coach Mickey Arthur.
England may have lost their past two one-day series, both against New Zealand, but I believe they have a serious opportunity to upset South Africa.
Dale Steyn used to be a well-scrubbed bloke who wore a goofy grin that wobbled harmlessly under starry, starry eyes. He was polite and cheerful, and he could bowl a bit. He probably never said ”Well, golly gee.” But if he did, we would have chuckled heartily and ruffled his hair as if the lot of us were in a Spur commercial.
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/ 29 October 2007
Former England captain Andrew Flintoff turned up to a training session last winter under the influence of alcohol, the then England coach Duncan Fletcher revealed on Monday. The revelation which forced Fletcher to cancel the session comes in his new autobiography, which had widely been expected to lift the lid on the 5-0 Ashes debacle.