Australian train in military style boot camp
Australia continues to experiment with every coaching technique other than actual batting and bowling skills as John Buchanan takes the Australian team on a military style boot camp in the mountains. Apparently, the players are deprived of food, sleep, water, personal belongings and even their names:
The first two days of the camp will be used to break down the participants, with the instructors to deprive them of their daily belongings. Clothing will be provided, names and titles replaced by a number. Split into groups of six, the participants will be deprived of sleep, food and water and asked to perform highly complex and demanding activities under severe sensory stress.The only concession has been for Shane Warne who is limited to half a dozen baked bean tins a day and only allowed to bring two blonde supermodels to keep him warm in evenings.
| Posted by JC on Thu 24 Aug |  4 comments |
Looks like Cricketing skills are lowest priority on the list of "Super-coaches",Edward the Bono, Commando Training, Self help, Psychologist and all the stuff are high priority and then extra funds are called to Hire "batting/bowling/fielding" coach. Indian team to underwent "Commando" training recently :P , I thought cricket was all abt batting/bowling/fielding :D
Posted by Unsui on 2006-08-25 04:08:44
Posted by Unsui on 2006-08-25 04:08:44
Bring back Bobby Simpson, I say. He ushered in Australia's golden age - it looks like John Buchanan is going to commando us out of it.
Posted by JC on 2006-08-25 17:54:36
Posted by JC on 2006-08-25 17:54:36
I liked Neil Harvey's response on this crap :~)http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Cricket/2006/08/25/1775737-ap.html
Simpson is my all time favorite when it comes to coaching. India should have given him fulltime job after 99 WC rather than just using him as "Consultant". The guy writes some insightful article at http://www.sportstar.in/ I had sent you link on how he statistically proved wrong claim of current speedsters being "overworked" have a gr8 wknd :~)
Posted by Unsui on 2006-08-25 19:47:25
Simpson is my all time favorite when it comes to coaching. India should have given him fulltime job after 99 WC rather than just using him as "Consultant". The guy writes some insightful article at http://www.sportstar.in/ I had sent you link on how he statistically proved wrong claim of current speedsters being "overworked" have a gr8 wknd :~)
Posted by Unsui on 2006-08-25 19:47:25
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