High-level franchise cricket coaches, like most well-paid employees, feel an understandable need to justify their position by “doing” something, or at least saying something to the players under their control. They usually work for wealthy, expectant owners too.

The more secure among them tend to be happy for their players to seek personal and technical advice from the coaches players have grown up with in their formative years, or their first professional coach, but most prefer their players to do what is required for the team — to do “as they are told”...

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