I liked Kirsten, but I can't deny that his quitting us because he wanted to spend time with family but then immediately taking up the Saffer gig didn't taint my appreciation for him to some degree. I mean, it doesn't change what he already accomplished for us, but it does make me want to give him the angry wife silent treatment.
He can spend more time with his family if he's in SA?
It's not all that much more, is it? Overseas tours would be the same as before and he'd be travelling all over the country during the home season which doesn't make things much better for family time if he's got kids in school. It's like a 5-10% improvement IMO for when matches are played at his hometown or during the kids summer if they're willing to lug around with a cricket team instead of chilling on a beach or skiing somewhere else.
I think it's only fair that we insert a clause in our coaches contracts that they can't run off to coach a different international team for a couple of years after they've coached ours, especially if we're slated to play that other team soon after they switch.
Yeah, Mahela Jayawardene, IIRC, although he wasn't the SL coach prior. He was just far too knowledgeable about the SL team, due to reasons of recency, for them to be comfortable with him fraternizing with the enemy. Not exactly the same situation, but close enough in principle.
Don't like this thinking at all. When Kirsten worked out his deal with SA for coaching them, he put forward clauses for number of days he would stay at home etc to suit himself. He did the job he was contracted to do well, so much so that the senior players kept requesting him to continue. We should take it at face value that he did want to spend more time with his family.
Just watched an interview where Ganguly said he had already told the BCCI that he had to leave at 5pm (shortly before Shastri was interviewed) because of a CAB meeting where he was the chairperson.
Dada not holding back.