Let the coach pick the selectors
If coaches are held accountable for a team's performance, then perhaps they should be the ones appointing the selectors who choose the team, writes Daryll Cullinan in the Weekender .
ESPNcricinfo staff
25-Feb-2013
If coaches are held accountable for a team's performance, then perhaps they should be the ones appointing the selectors who choose the team, writes Daryll Cullinan in the Weekender.
One of cricket’s peculiarities is its persistence with selection panels. In this age of professional sport and accountability, I don’t know of any country where the coach is solely entrusted with picking his team.
In most professional sports this is the norm. It must be one of the most frustrating things for an international cricket coach knowing the judgment and opinions of others can significantly influence the success and failure of his job.
Mathew Varghese is sub-editor (stats) at Cricinfo