Flanders puts the gum boots on

Buchanan takes job in NZ Cricket

"John Buchanan, the former coach of Australia, has been confirmed as New Zealand's director of cricket. Buchanan will take on the role with New Zealand Cricket (NZC) in May, and will be in charge of the high-performance programme, while also overseeing the selection panel and implementing a talent identification system. "

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Good luck with that, Flanders, and enjoy the Sheep r00ting.

skully wrote:Buchanan takes job in NZ Cricket

"John Buchanan, the former coach of Australia, has been confirmed as New Zealand's director of cricket. Buchanan will take on the role with New Zealand Cricket (NZC) in May, and will be in charge of the high-performance programme, while also overseeing the selection panel and implementing a talent identification system. "

That bit won't take long!

Thank God for that. There were rumours that he had put in for the SA job.

Lots of Saffies coming through Bas.

Continuing Grant Elliott's excellent work I hope!

Was a bit surprised at Elliot getting the nod there. Never did much here.

Didn't do a fat lot for NZ if truth be told.

Basil wrote:Didn't do a fat lot for NZ if truth be told.

Hence my surprise.

The Buke did a lot for Australian cricket back in the day (look at 2006-7, look at those World Cups).

And when he changed sides and sold his consultancy skills to the Poms for 2010-11, look what happened.

Appointed in October 1999 to replace Geoff Marsh he was considered an unlikely candidate given that he had not played at the Test level as had his predecessors, Marsh and Bob Simpson. His initial results were very impressive however, as he helped steer the team to unprecedented success. At one stage his record was 15 wins from 15 games played. [...]

Buchanan [...] led the side to numerous successes, including a world-record 16 consecutive Test match victories and 23 ODI victories in world cup tournaments, [He also led] a 2001 and 2002-03 Ashes domination winning both series 4-1, the 2003 ICC Cricket World Cup in South Africa, the 2004 tour of India, in which Australia hadn't won a series there in thirty-six years [...]. In late 2006 he helped the team to their first ever ICC Champions Trophy victory, after four previously failed attempts and followed this with a 5-0 whitewash in the 2006-07 Ashes Series, the first since the 1920-21 Series. In 2007 his team won their third consecutive world cup. [...] Ponting credits him as being one of the important reasons why Australia completed their World Cup hat trick of wins.

(adapted from wiki)


I bet you Aussies would have him back in a heartbeat.

Not sure what he could achieve with the current bunch. Not much more than the reviled Nielsen, I suspect. A number of the gun team he coached (including Warnie and Gilly) thought he was a loony.