CA Open To Advice On Split Coaching - Chairman Lachlan Henderson
Cricket Australia’s latest chairman Lachlan Henderson has revealed that he is welcome to ideas about split coaching and the mannerisms in which it can be employed effectively in Australian cricket.
Following Justin Langer’s exit from the role of the head coach, CA appointed Andrew McDonald as the interim coach for the recently concluded T20I series against Sri Lanka. In the long run, they need to find another option and Henderson implied it doesn’t have to be just one person taking over.
“I’m open to advice on that (split coaching). I think it is a very time-consuming role for one individual and maybe a more distributed method of coaching is the way of the future. They’re the sort of things that are playing out at the moment. We are going for a single head coach to be installed in the near future.”
“How it plays out after that will depend a bit on that appointment, their availability and how that works across all forms of the game in what’s going to be a really busy 12 to 18 months. It may be that person is not available for every single tour around the world over the next 18 months,” Henderson told ABC radio.
“It’s going to be a long and drawn-out process” – Lachlan Henderson
Henderson further asserted that having multiple coaches will definitely take a while to appoint and the process will take a lot of time. Australia hasn’t had split coaching before and this will be their first attempt at doing so.
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“They’re the ones who’ll be making a recommendation to the board. The board looks at the information presented to it and then will make the call based on that recommendation. It’s not going to be a long and drawn-out process and obviously, we’ve got an interim coach already installed,” Henderson added.
Australia defeated Sri Lanka by 4-1 in the T20I series that concluded on Sunday.
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