what would you regard as an area most in need of development?
What does this mean for you in your coaching?
depends upon which team I am coaching..
Pak- running between the wickets, fielding, fitness
Ind- physical fitness, bowling (quickies)
SA- playing spin effectively, encouraging effective mental approach(es) to see through tight situations at the death
WI- minimize a lax attitude and encourage "bringing it" to every game, noone is above the game when wearing your country's colors
Fielding and fitness.... someone please teach these clowns how to dive!
Also, our pre match strategies and homework is nill. Teams like Australia and SA do so much research on each and every player of the opponent side, they pinpoint the individual weeknesses of the batsmen and bowlers and then devise effective strategies to exploit them. You look at their coaches and player and you see them sitting and observing, making notes on the laptops, checking previous matches and dismissals etc.
And then you see our side,, and you see miandad sitting on a sofa with his legs wide open picking his nose or scratching his balls.
We should take advantage of the technology, and even though australians are so good in fielding,,,, they actually have a separate fielding coach from america who's apparently some baseball guy and since baseball requires quite a lot of fielding,,, hes a very handy coach to have, who teaches them how to field, dive and throw.