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New Zealand Off Season 2014

Kippax

Kippax

Cricketer Of The Year
McMillan looks a sitter for batting coach job | Stuff.co.nz

Siddons, the Wellington coach who has two years left on his contract, said the job piqued his interest but with a young family it wasn't the right time.

He was formerly Australia's batting coach under John Buchanan and has a proven track record as a batting specialist, with Bangladesh and the Firebirds.

Edgar, the national selection manager under coach Mike Hesson, was a qualified batting coach in Sydney before returning to Auckland. He also seemed a good fit, but the former New Zealand opener said he was happy in his current role.

That leaves McMillan, who stood in for Carter in the Wellington test against West Indies in December.

He tasted success as Canterbury's batting coach when they won the Plunket Shield. Just four centuries were achieved, although as many as fourteen players averaged over 20 with the bat.

Canterbury's head coach, Gary Stead, is understood to not be putting his name forward.

McMillan's strength is seen as taking batsmen out of their comfort zones and trying to bridge the gap between domestic and international standard. The drawback for the 55-test batsman is the amount of time away from his family.

New Zealand Cricket says its preference is to employ a New Zealander. Other contenders, if they apply, would be Northern Districts' James Pamment, Auckland's Matt Horne and former Knights coach Grant Brad burn, who also coached NZA. Wildcards would be Martin Crowe and Mark Greatbatch, although it's doubtful either would apply.

Applications close on May 6, and the team depart for the Caribbean on May 24.
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SteveNZ

International Coach
BackFootPunch said:
Yeah fair but if you've heard him talk about the game on TV you should be worried about some of the **** he'd say if he was the batting coach. He just doesn't seem to have the analytical eye I'd like to see from someone in that position, though he probably does overplay his views for the viewers at times.
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It's more a nervous television burble, I would imagine. Anyone who has had a camera or a microphone thrust in front of them knows the brain can often not play ball and the most inane, off the wall rubbish comes out. But if that doesn't improve over time, you'd sense it's just pure clap trap underneath the hood.
 
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Dan

Hall of Fame Member
If Bradburn was going to get it, they would have announced it pretty quickly, surely - especially if it was a straight swap with the former bloke taking over the NZA role. No reason to draw it out.
Why would they get rid of Bradburn from the NZA role though? They mustn't rate Carter that highly if they're demoting him from BLACKCAPS duty, and I always got the feeling that they did rate Bradburn.

Suggests to me that Bradburn may have handed in his notice at some point, but it hasn't been announced yet. Shuffling the deckchairs to minimise the impact of his loss.

McMillan to get the batting coach role, Bradburn to be off somewhere random-that-isn't-ND. Who has coaching vacancies at present?
 
Kippax

Kippax

Cricketer Of The Year
Grant Bradburn Appointed NZ 'A' and U19 Coach | Stuff.co.nz

Former Northern Knights coach Grant Bradburn will take charge of the New Zealand A and New Zealand under-19 cricket sides.

Bradburn, who stepped down as Northern Districts head coach this season after five years in charge, takes over both roles this week and is contracted until the end of the under-19 World Cup in March next year.
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Only ever a short-term contract for Bradburn.

With NZ A, played 10, won 1, lost 6. With NZ U19, the highlight was beating the UAE twice, on their way to being a hammered finalist in the plate comp.
 
hendrix

hendrix

Hall of Fame Member
I don't hate Bradburn. Honestly, I don't have a problem with him advocating for certain players - it's up to the other domestic coaches to do the same, to be honest. Also, he seemed to know what he was talking about in regard to local and foreign pitches and conditions.

It's a loss of knowledge, IMO. Not a good thing.
 
Flem274*

Flem274*

123/5
he wasn't a domestic coach when he did it, he was a national coach, national coaches are meant to be impartial.

and if you want to encourage even more regional parochialism from the coaches then well...

he has some knowledge we've lost, but we've also gotten rid of a coach who played favourites and tried to implement some sort of faux-moneyball scheme in Northern Districts, resulting in the glut of below par allrounders getting first class matches ahead of players who were good at one thing but did it well.

so to sum up he's biased even when he's not meant to be, he has favourites and a penchant for bits and pieces players. good riddance.
 
Kippax

Kippax

Cricketer Of The Year
Yep. never achieved any meaningful technical progression with any given player. Just thicko, denialist, winter code slime. Good riddance indeed.
 
straw man

straw man

Hall of Fame Member
Surprised to see that we're now sixth in the test rankings - last I looked we were lingering down at 8th equal with the Windies, but they've gone a long way backwards and we've gone forwards. Ahead of SL too. V pleased about this.

Reliance ICC Test Team Rankings (as of 1 May, after the annual update)
Rank (+/-) Team Rating (+/-)
1 (+1) Australia 123 (+8)
2 (-1) South Africa 123 (-4)
3 (+1) England 104 (-3)
4 (+1) Pakistan 103 (+3)
5 (-2) India 102 (-10)
6 (+1) New Zealand 92 (+5)
7 (-1) Sri Lanka 90 (+1)
8 (-) West Indies 76 (-11)
9 (-) Zimbabwe 40 (+6)
10 (-) Bangladesh 21 (+2)
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hendrix

hendrix

Hall of Fame Member
Wow, I didn't realise that had happened. Really not far away from India, Pakistan and England, either.
 
Bahnz

Bahnz

Hall of Fame Member
As I understand it, the ICC calculator gives a weighted average of performances over the last 4 years, with performances in the last 2 years rating higher than in the first two. So the rise in our ranking can be attributed to our ghastly 2010 series against Australia no longer being considered, and our equally shoddy 2012 series against SA being given a lesser weighting. Given how terrible our performances were during the rest of 2012, we can probably expect New Zealand's points ranking to rise higher even if we don't do that well in WI and Pakistan.

EDIT: Just read the ICC FAQ. As of May, all of the results from the 2010/11 period have been dropped from the calculator. During that time, NZ played two series: a 1-0 loss to India and another 1-0 to Pakistan - hence the increase.
 
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Flem274*

Flem274*

123/5
how many points do you get for a series win?

we're 12 away from being third equal. is that a huge gap or a small gap?
 
straw man

straw man

Hall of Fame Member
Also I'm not sure if much/any weighting is given to whether a series was home or away. If it doesn't account for the disparity between our performances at home vs performances away, and just sees a series victory against India and a solid beating of the Windies, then those would provide a large boost to our score.

Note that the points of both India and Windies have taken a dive, probably largely due to losing to low-ranked us.
 
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