NZC's confusion to find the Wright way
By pitting John Wright's intuitiveness against John Buchanan's ingenuity, two opposite ideologies, NZC created a situation that was expected to go out of hand
Devashish Fuloria
25-Feb-2013
By pitting John Wright's intuitiveness against John Buchanan's ingenuity, two opposite ideologies, NZC created a situation that was expected to go out of hand. Paul Lewis in The New Zealand Herald questions NZC's orignal design of a bipolar power structure which has taken Wright as a casualty.
By setting these two on divergent paths, NZC painted themselves into a corner, nailed their feet to the floor, set the timer on the bomb and then put on dark glasses in the hope that it would all go away. They forced themselves to choose between Buchanan's scientific vision for NZ cricket or Wright's more intuitive, commonsense approach.
That decision was maybe made easier as, when faced with ending Wright's contract or those of Buchanan and his small army of Australian assistants, the good of New Zealand cricket maybe came down to dollars and cents.
Paul Thomas in the same paper writes about ups and downs of a coach's job and how Wright should be the least surprised by NZC's treatment.
The dizzying ups and downs of a coach's existence have been compared to a rollercoaster ride or being stuck in a lift that shuttles from the basement to the penthouse and back, seldom stopping at the floors in between.
Devashish Fuloria is a sub-editor with ESPNcricinfo