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BCCI silences Kirsten

Cricket

Internet, undated
India coach Gary’ Kirsten and his assistant Paddy Upton, who is the mental conditioning coach of the team, have been asked by the Board of Cricket Control of India (BCCI) to stop airing post-match comments and writing columns on Kirsten’s website.
“He had already taken permission about his website, so there's no issue there. But he cannot write post match comments or columns. The same holds true for Upton too. That's as per our policy,” BCCI CAO Ratnakar Shetty said on Wednesday.
Kirsten has given his view’s on audio in the website about the matches which have been played by India in the ongoing Asia Cup in Pakistan and has also written columns, the latest one dated June 25 dealing with the importance of introducing a rotation system for players.
In his last column Kirsten has written that one of his most important tasks as head coach “will be to implement a rotation policy for the national squads in order to keep our best players rested and fresh".
Stating that implementing this won't be a child's play, Kirsten has written that the players were mature enough “to accept that there is simply too much cricket for any single player to perform at his best all the time."
Kirsten has also indicated that India's limited overs captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni “is probably the most obvious example of a man needing a break" adding that going by his own experience "by the time a player is feeling tired or flat it is already too late to rest him."
“The rest needs to happen before fatigue sets in. MS is a brilliant cricketer and the sort of man who is happy to play every game, but he know’s that it is not practical. Fatigue can also lead to loss of form as well as injuries, both of which can adversely affect a player's longterm career," he has written.
Dhoni had recently criticised the Asia Cup schedule, in particular the back-to-back matches, and the BCCI responded by stating that anyone was free to take a break if he feels so.
The website also contains columns (four so far) by Upton and the BCCI has also directed him to stop his columns.
The Board has already stopped chief selector Dilip Vengsarkar from writing his regular columns in a Marathi daily owned by its chief Sharad Pawar's brother.
Interestingly, the coach's website also contains a section Ask Gary', which is an interactive one, with the fans seeking answers from Kirsten on coaching matters.
One of the queries concerned the much-discussed juniors vs seniors issue and Kirsten has again touched on the relevance of a rotation policy in his answer.
“In today's world of professional sport with feally demanding schedules, 1 believe strongly in a rotation policy as well as succession planning," Kirsten has answered
"A time comes in every organisation for its Sustainability and long term success, that senior statesmen (who will always perform!) make way for a younger generation that will successfully take the organisation into the next generation," Kirsten has answered, adding it was happening in Indian cricket too, especially in one-day cricket.
“Whilst senior players should not be discarded just for the sake of it, the focus will be more and more on youth.
“Test match cricket is a different proposition with experience playing an extremely important role as you begin to introduce younger players," he ended.
The coach has apparently referred to the discarding of former captains Sourav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid from the limited overs format of the game since the beginning of the triangular series in Australia won by Dhoni and his men to create history.