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The coaches' coach

Mohammad Isam
His playing days may have ended too soon, but Andrew Zesers knows enough to suggest a growth among the country's cricket coaches.
Zesers. a former paceman from Adelaide who played for Australia on only two occasions, is part of a team of coaches who are in town to conduct the updated Level 2 coaching course at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur in the past week.
The broad-shouldered South Australian, who suffered a shoulder injury very7 early in his career that forced an early retirement at the young age of 23, stressed that Bangladesh's coaches have a distinct advantage when it comes to the pathway that is being set up for them.
"You have the cricket academies and that is very important for the system and vital for the coaches," said Zesers.
"In Australia coach-
in the evening. For example, the coach's kid is playing in the club and so he contributes," he said before adding, "but here, the academies make it more professional at the basic level for the coaches and they deal with a lot of pressure from very early on."
He also agreed that the vast club structure also adds to the seriousness of the coaches who would always compete with the other for the top jobs.
"The coaches here are excellent, intelligent and I think the three ; courses have really helped them to that extent," said the man who happens to be of Latvian descent.
But he also warned that the national team would always reflect the poor domestic structure of professional cricket.
"You need a strong, high perfor-
mance competition where the best players take part. In Australia, our first-class system is fantastic and that contributes to the national team," said Zesers, who has served in the same capacity of Cricket Australia's game education officer in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bahrain and
ing is almost voluntary at the primary level. People get off work and then do some coaching
Thailand. He has come to Dhaka several times
in the last four years and evidently has enjoyed his stints in this country.
"When I travelled to India in 1985-86 first, I didn't like the place because maybe I was just 18 at that stage. But I have come to this region several times now and I really like Bangladesh," said Zesers, who admittedly had such a bad right shoulder problem in the late 1980s that it took 18 months to diagnose. "Sadly I knew I couldn't continue any longer and I have a young family to take care of. The structure then wasn't professional as it is today," admitted Zesers, a master of line and length in the 1980s.
The Zesers story is mostly about coaching but he vividly remembers his playing days — the 1987 World Cup in the subcontinent. "The crowd was very loud in Delhi and 1 was picked ahead of Simon O'Donnell as the wicket was grassy. We lost that game but I think I bowled quite well that day," recalled a cheerful Zesers.
Sadly that was the end of Zesers's career as the shoulder trouble set in. He would be the ideal man to discuss injury management, Mashrafe Bin Mortaza in particular.
"You know the player makes the final call. The physio or the specialist might have a say but ultimately the player knows and tells whether he wants to play or not," said Zesers, who is now serving as the selector of the South Australia Sheffield Shield side.