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It’s a coach’s life

by Andrew Miller

‘The batting efforts of our opposition are not assisting the development of our bowlers’ one-day skills’: John Buchanan might wish to reconsider that statement after six losses in seven matches
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At the very moment of Australia’s third defeat of the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy in Hamilton yesterday, the cameras panned - like the ghouls that they are - to the balcony of the visitors’ dressing-room, where the coach, John Buchanan, was bookishly scribbling his final notes of
a chastening trip across the Tasman. After the fortnight he has endured, the man they call Ned Flanders was probably just filling out a final string of ho-diddly-hums before dumping the entire portfolio in the shredder.
“The batting efforts of our opposition are not assisting the development of our bowlers’ one-day skills,” were just a few of the many words Buchanan had uttered at the midpoint of the CB Series, […]

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