Steve Savicki
08-30-2006, 05:23 PM
Shane Warne wants Australia's next cricket coach to have international playing experience to bring on the country's next generation of players.
Australia will be looking for a new national coach after April's World Cup in the West Indies, following confirmation Monday that incumbent John Buchanan will be looking to stand down after seven years at the helm.
Buchanan has gained outstanding success in that time, with Australia winning 24 Test series, drawing one and losing two -- in India in 2000-01 and last year's Ashes series in England.
He has had a 75 percent success rate in Test cricket from 85 Tests, and 74 percent from 182 one-day internationals.
But Warne, Test cricket's leading wicket-taker who has had a strained relationship with Buchanan, sees an opportunity for Australia to employ a coach with a Test-playing background.
"I don't have a preference but I would like to see someone in the job who has international playing experience and understands actually what the guys are going through," Warne told reporters Tuesday.
Warne, who turns 37 in a few weeks, said there was a need for a team manager, rather than coach, to have the access to call in cricket experts to help the players.
"We've gone through a stage where someone like John Buchanan thinks outside the box. Now we need a coach who has a cricket background," he said.
"Australian cricket is about to go through a transition stage where a lot of us will be leaving the team for one reason or another in the next couple of years.
"There will be lots of younger players coming through, so it will be nice to have someone who has played at international level to help teach the younger guys what the game is about because we are going to lose a few of the senior players."
He added: "You need someone to reinforce some of the stuff that got you there in the first place, to make sure that you are doing that day in and day out."
Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland said Monday the process of appointing a new coach would begin soon.
Sri Lanka coach Tom Moody, the head coach of Australia's centre of excellence Tim Nielsen, India coach Greg Chappell and Dav Whatmore, now coaching Bangladesh, are among those who have been mentioned as replacements.
Buchanan has presided over a golden era in Australian cricket.
He took over when Australia were one match into what was to become a world record streak of 16 consecutive Test wins between October 1999 and March 2001.
Australia also won a record 21 consecutive one-day international matches in early 2003, including a clean sweep of 11 matches in the World Cup in South Africa.
So do you all think Buchanan is competent?
Australia will be looking for a new national coach after April's World Cup in the West Indies, following confirmation Monday that incumbent John Buchanan will be looking to stand down after seven years at the helm.
Buchanan has gained outstanding success in that time, with Australia winning 24 Test series, drawing one and losing two -- in India in 2000-01 and last year's Ashes series in England.
He has had a 75 percent success rate in Test cricket from 85 Tests, and 74 percent from 182 one-day internationals.
But Warne, Test cricket's leading wicket-taker who has had a strained relationship with Buchanan, sees an opportunity for Australia to employ a coach with a Test-playing background.
"I don't have a preference but I would like to see someone in the job who has international playing experience and understands actually what the guys are going through," Warne told reporters Tuesday.
Warne, who turns 37 in a few weeks, said there was a need for a team manager, rather than coach, to have the access to call in cricket experts to help the players.
"We've gone through a stage where someone like John Buchanan thinks outside the box. Now we need a coach who has a cricket background," he said.
"Australian cricket is about to go through a transition stage where a lot of us will be leaving the team for one reason or another in the next couple of years.
"There will be lots of younger players coming through, so it will be nice to have someone who has played at international level to help teach the younger guys what the game is about because we are going to lose a few of the senior players."
He added: "You need someone to reinforce some of the stuff that got you there in the first place, to make sure that you are doing that day in and day out."
Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland said Monday the process of appointing a new coach would begin soon.
Sri Lanka coach Tom Moody, the head coach of Australia's centre of excellence Tim Nielsen, India coach Greg Chappell and Dav Whatmore, now coaching Bangladesh, are among those who have been mentioned as replacements.
Buchanan has presided over a golden era in Australian cricket.
He took over when Australia were one match into what was to become a world record streak of 16 consecutive Test wins between October 1999 and March 2001.
Australia also won a record 21 consecutive one-day international matches in early 2003, including a clean sweep of 11 matches in the World Cup in South Africa.
So do you all think Buchanan is competent?