Re: [nukkad] List of talented ex Indian cricketers capable to coach the Indian Cricket Team !!

["Ravi Menon" <>]

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Rajan,
Playing experience yes - talent at playing the game is certainly no 
prerequisite for a coach.

One of the most suiccesful coaches in the suburbs of Bombay has been Oliver 
Andrade now a Municipal Councillor.From the tim i knew "Olly" hehas never 
been able to run firther than a few yards ata time but boy could he coach!!! 
He produced some of the best players to turnm out for Bombay / Maharashtra 
and if it hadnt been for regionalism I am sure we would have had many more 
in teh national team.

Dave Whatmore Sri Lanka's coach who took them to victory in the World Cup 
was no Lankan. Dennis Lillee is Australian and if it were not for hime we 
still would have five spinners in teh team and be reduced to opening the 
bowling with a spnner like New Zealand did a while ago.

And then one final point, local playing conditions are one thing, cricket is 
an international game. I would also like to add a few  instances here that 
really show what the game of cricket is all about.

The first - Sunil Gavaskar in the way to his maiden century in the West 
Indies played a silly stroke o Rohan Kanhai's bowling while in the 90's. 
Kanhai went up to Gavaskar and told him, "Son dont throw it away". Another 
involved Azharuddin who was going through a lean patch, had his grip 
corrected by Zaheer "Zed" Abba and the result his average shot up again!

The third and final episode involves two non Indians. Mushtaq "Mushy" Ahmed 
of Pakistanwho appeared to be failing with his leg spin in Australia was 
invited up to Shane Warne's room for finer tips on Aussie conditions and 
spin.

That is what cricket is all about. Its a game and is shared by an 
International cmmunity. However on teh sub-continent we seem to have taken 
it to a level that is more war than anythging else.

Finally many of the "brains" that have made it big in the US were trained 
educated in tehir later years by "foreigners" does that make them non 
Indian?

Rehards

Ravi

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