Men on a mission
As much as Cricket South Africa’s appointment of Duncan Fletcher to aid the Proteas at key times over the next year or so is to be deeply lauded, national coach Mickey Arthur deserves bouquets of his own for giving it the tick of approval
Judhajit
25-Feb-2013
As much as Cricket South Africa’s appointment of Duncan Fletcher to aid the Proteas at key times over the next year or so is to be deeply lauded, national coach Mickey Arthur deserves bouquets of his own for giving it the tick of approval. Rob Houwing in his column on Sport24.com talks about the latest move in South African cricket and believes the occasional alliance may very well bear fruit as long as both men know very clearly, and also appreciate, what their specific and separate areas of jurisdiction are.
Certainly, there would be some instances in which more firebrand personalities might be expected to clash pretty quickly in such circumstances but Arthur, for one, is a thoroughly decent person for whom ego issues come some way down on his list of characteristics and priorities.
Fletcher, too, while an intriguingly more complex individual - this comes out in his autobiography, in which an arguably excessive distrust for an array of people is a recurring theme - is, at the end of the day, a salt-of-the-earth and utterly proven “cricket man” to the core.