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The Surfer

Shine must surround bowlers with a warmer glow

Jamie Alter
Jamie Alter
25-Feb-2013
Kevin Shine offers advice to Steve Harmison ahead of tomorrow's final one-dayer at Headingley, June 30, 2006

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Under the guidance of Troy Cooley, England's bowlers were a tougher lot who rarely broke down. No sooner did Cooley depart for Australia to take up the role of fast bowling coach, than the same Ashes-winning ensemble - or the Horsemen of the Apocalypse - have either fallen apart, broken down, or learnt to use the cricket ball as a watering hose. Sizing up Cooley with Kevin Shine, his replacement, Scyld Berry feels that England's specialist coach needs to be more of a psychologist. Read more at The Telegraph.

Jamie Alter is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo