The coach shouldn't come free
It has been three months since Andy Moles was sacked as New Zealand coach and his replacement is still nowhere in sight
Kanishkaa Balachandran
25-Feb-2013
It has been three months since Andy Moles was sacked as New Zealand coach and his replacement is still nowhere in sight. Mark Richardson, in the Herald on Sunday, feels that if the players should be given a major say in the kind of coach they want, they should share the cost as well.
It's unlikely, I know. But they are independent contractors, are they not? They seem to be able to make decisions over where they play, who they play for and what they play and now they want the say on who coaches them.
In the same paper, Paul Lewis fears that when Australia arrive, there will be no coach, nor team director, psychic, horse whisperer or whoever it is New Zealand Cricket is trying to get. Daniel Vettori will continue to call the shots and it's hard to say if John Wright's the ideal man for the job.
There's just one thing. Who minds the minders? When it all goes pear-shaped and the wheels fall off and all the other disastrous cliches start to apply ... what will Vettori do? Will he ditch trusted lieutenants? Will the hard decisions be taken or will he circle the wagons?
Kanishkaa Balachandran is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo