Ahead of Australia’s Test and ODI tour of India, former spinner Steve O’Keefe has pitched for various coaches for various codecs, saying it might assist take the stress off one particular person.
Andrew McDonald is at the moment Australia’s all-format coach after he changed Justin Langer final yr forward of the collection towards Pakistan.
O’Keefe, who performed 9 Tests and 7 T20Is, believes that if the two-coach mannequin can work for England, there isn’t a purpose why it will not work for Australia.
England have carried out remarkably effectively after splitting the Test and white-ball teaching setups.
The Test facet, underneath coach Brendon McCullum, has gained 9 out of 10 Tests, whereas England gained the T20 World Cup in Australia final yr underneath Matthew Mott.
With Australia set for a busy yr that features the Border-Gavaskar collection, the Ashes and the ODI World Cup in India, amongst different issues, O’Keefe feels the time is correct to get a distinct head coach.
“I think following the England model will work… there is a lot of pressure on coaches to travel, they are sometimes away for 300 days a year,” the previous Australia spinner advised SEN Radio on Saturday.
“The Australian staff has pushed India and England, that takes loads off you and I feel having a pool of coaches which you could go to for white ball, T20 and one-day cricket will ease that burden .
O’Keefe mentioned that completely different coaches have been wanted on the time as a result of cricket had developed in several methods in several codecs.
“They are, now particularly, utterly completely different video games. I’m not taking something away from Andrew McDonald; he is a incredible coach, however I feel sooner or later if now we have a white-ball and a red-ball staff, Had there been a coach, this could have been the way in which ahead.”The former participant mentioned he had a sense that change would occur quickly.
“My gut feeling is that at some stage it will happen.” Recently, Todd Greenberg, CEO of the Australian Cricketers’ Association (ACA), expressed concern over the growing workload of the gamers, saying that it’s changing into tough for them to play in all three codecs.
“It’s getting harder and harder, and it’s getting harder and harder … playing three formats of the game,” Greenberg mentioned in December.
“I feel within the subsequent 5-10 years, it is going to be actually not possible to play in all three codecs. It will not be bodily attainable, it isn’t attainable mentally, so a selection needs to be made.”
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
