"If we can learn a bit from his vast experience, it would be very helpful for us," Mashrafe said. "Pace bowling has a major role in a team taking 20 wickets in a Test match, so I feel that our boys can learn from him how to go about it. His passion, the way he handled situation, these are key things that we can all take from him.
"We don't have bowlers like Dale Steyn in our team. Our bowling attack needs to do well for a number of years, and not just now. We need a bowler who would take 300 Test wickets, so for that one has to perform for a sustained period. There must be ways how that can happen, and I think we learn that from him [Walsh]."
I think that's a pretty obvious thing to say really, and I'd be more worried if they didn't learn from him. No matter what people think of Walsh, you only have to look at his experience to realise that cricketers are going to be able to learn from him so like I said, he might have done a bit of brown nosing by calling him his idol, but the rest of the statement didn't really need making I wouldn't have thought.
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I think that's a pretty obvious thing to say really, and I'd be more worried if they didn't learn from him. No matter what people think of Walsh, you only have to look at his experience to realise that cricketers are going to be able to learn from him so like I said, he might have done a bit of brown nosing by calling him his idol, but the rest of the statement didn't really need making I wouldn't have thought.
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Great players very rarely make for great coaches. That is for all sports, not just cricket. Garfield Robinson (zacaroni) wrote about this earlier in the year.
Quote:His conviction that the great players have not been the best coaches is true, not only as it relates West Indies cricket, or even cricket, in general. It is true of all sport. Ambrose, he said, was the worst coach despite having been "a fantastic bowler." And while Stephenson probably engaged in hyperbole to press home his point, it is a broader truth that great players don't normally go on to become great coaches.
Have a look at some of the best coaches in the world across a range of sporting disciplines. How many of them had been outstanding players? Additionally, look at the great players who attempted to become coaches. How many of them developed into hugely successful coaches? The answer in both cases: very few.
Those frequently regarded as the best coaches in cricket -- Dav Whatmore, Duncan Fletcher, John Wright, John Buchanan, Bob Woolmer - were hardly great players. On the other hand, legends like Greg Chappell and Viv Richards didn't have much success in the coaching business.
Few Indian cricketers who played under Chappell have a good word to say about the great batsman. Even Sachin Tendulkar, worshipped in his country and seemingly as conscientious a player as there ever was, called the Australian "a ringmaster who imposed his ideas on the players without showing any signs of being concerned about whether they felt comfortable or not."
Garfield also included some great data from other sports showing how superstars have a hard time imparting their wisdom and expertise onto lesser players:
Quote:The compiled winning percentage of Hall of Fame baseball players who became managers is .461. In other words, Hall of Fame players become below-average managers. The same is true for the greatest National Basketball Association (NBA) players, and great tennis players who chose to take up coaching. It is a phenomenon that occurs, as I hinted before, in every sport.
Ted Williams is widely rated as the best hitter of all time. Yet his foray into the world of coaching was a disaster and not long ago a baseball website named him one of the 10 worst managers in Major League baseball history.
If you owned a basketball team you'd want a coach who you thought knew the game inside out; someone who won everything there was to win as a player; someone like Earvin "Magic" Johnson. Right? Well, close to the end of the 1993-94 season the Los Angeles Lakers apparently had that idea and hired the great player. Magic lasted 16 games, winning only five. During one game when things weren't going at all well, he apparently turned to an assistant and asked: "What have I gotten myself into?"
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Run-of-the-mill players are more likely to become better coaches. Not bequeathed the superior gifts of the star players, they are unable to access the short cuts that come naturally to the greats. Therefore, they understand their craft better, are better able to recognize the barriers that hinder performance, and are more adept at deciphering problems and communicating instructions."
Dhaka, Sep 4 (IANS) West Indies pace legend Courtney Walsh on Sunday said he always dreamed of coaching a national team after leaving a glittering 17-year career behind.
So, he had little to think over when the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) offered him the position of bowling coach, reports bdnews24.com.
The 53-year-old Jamaican set foot in Dhaka on Saturday night. He arrived at the BCB offices on Sunday afternoon to complete the formalities of his three-year contract. "I think the opportunity presented itself. I've always dreamed of being involved with an international team. I didn't have to think too hard about this opportunity," Walsh later told reporters.
"There was something that I wanted to get done as well, so I am happy to be part of it."
Walsh - the first bowler to reach the landmark tally of 500 Testwickets - credited BCB Chief Executive Nizamuddin Chowdhury for clearing up any doubt which he may have had.
"I remember when Nizam got in touch with me and said they were interested, I said let me think about it," he added.
"We went back and forth but when he said 'you are our No. 1 target', that was something that I gave it a serious consideration.
"It showed that they wanted to take their cricket to another level. We started the chat from there and I am here."
Having previously praised Chandika Hathurusingha's exploits as head coach in the growth of Bangladesh cricket, he hoped to contribute to the team's success.
"I arrived here last night to do the best I can for Bangladesh cricket working with the head coach. Together we can achieve some good successes for Bangladesh cricket," Walsh added.
--IANS