LIVE and EXCLUSIVE Discussion with Coach Shane Jurgensen

[Naimul_Hd]

Hi Shane,

Welcome to BC. I had few questions, if you dont mind answering those -

1.As Bangladesh heavily rely on spin bowling attack, being a pace bowler how are you trying to help spinners ? Do you feel need of a spin coach too ?

2. Our national team bowling dept looks one dimensional. Full of SLA's and couple of medium pacers. Don't you think its high time that we should take 'out of the box' approach and bring in new blokes of different bowling types i.e a genuine leggie, a genuine right handed off spinner apart from part time mahmudullah and nasir and train them too ? We just can't afford to continue such pattern, i think, we should consider 'position based skilled bowlers' rather than 'cover up part timers'.

3. What are the major obstacles that you face while coaching our players ?


Cheers !

[Out_You_Go]

Welcome coach! Hope you toughen up our bowlers.

[Rabz]

Hi Shane,

G'day mate.

You've been with the boys for few months now and probably have had the chance to assess the whole situation.

What are your short term, mid term and long term goals for the period of your tenure as Bangladesh coach ??

Have you achieved any yet ??

[simon]

দিতীয় অধ্যায়

[mufi_02]

Coach, thanks for answering my questions. We are glad to have you here at BC.

[auntu]

Welcome coach!

[Zunaid]

Originally Posted by Isnaad
Just as our mods have light green coloured IDs in BC, may I request the mods to give a unique coloured ID for our coach? Just a suggestion

Thanks for the suggestions. All our Cricket Notable members now sport the new bold maroon look.

[S. Jurgensen]

Originally Posted by auntu
Welcome coach!

Nice to see me with hair. Those were the days

[S. Jurgensen]

In regard to our Bangladesh spinners well personally I was not a spinner as a player but I have bowled spin in a games late in my career and through my last 10 years of coaching I have bowled a lot of spin to understand it more from a technique and tactical perspective for my coaching.

During my time with NZ however I worked very closely with Dan Vettori and Nathan McCullum to name a couple challenging them around the tactical side of bowling and learning from them and supporting them as required. Both bowlers needed actually their own specific needs different from each other from me also.

I will and do do the same now with our spinners. I work on and coach on different areas with Shakib than what I do with Sunny and also different again for Razzaq. Ranges from technique, types of deliveries, pace to bowl, field placement and to tactics depending on experience and their own requirements support needed to prepare for each game. That gives you an example on three guys in our squad that all bowl left hand but all need specific requirements and that Is also the same for Naeem and Riyad and Nasir.

In regards to obstacles well we have them everyday, players maybe sick or injured, recovery from injury, new players coming into the squad need assistance to be ready, training facilities. As coaches we have them everyday. Some people have questioned me on the different languages but so far that has not been a problem and it has challenged me as a coach to find ways to get the message across.

In regard to the make up of the bowling attack well that is not really a question for me sorry. It's just not my area.

Hope that helps answer your questions.

Shane J

[zinatf]

Thanks a lot coach. Hope to see your posts more in BC forum

[playmaker]

som1 who helps the both pace and spin bowlers..good enough

[faiazk]

love this!! being able to ask questions to the coach directly!! o thank you banglacricket! thank you Shane!

ps_ I wish we could bring the selectors in banglacricket as well

[faiazk]

can't we at least have the players here????

[Dhakablues]

We did, Once upon a time, Mushfique, Shakib did answer some questions, I think it was during the 2007 World Cup..

[playmaker]

Originally Posted by faiazk
can't we at least have the players here????

I think it would be unwise for a cricketer to do so

When he doesnt performs, the fans will ask him questions after questions and will insult him openly. Also, the fans will ask him questions that he'd prefer not to answer, questions like Are you satisfied, who do you think should be dropped and stuffs

And to add the that our players, no one apart from nafees or mushfiq really knows how to present themselves in front of public. And to add to that our players dont know proper english and so it would be very difficult for them to communicate in this forum, where most are fluent in english

[Navo]

Originally Posted by playmaker
I think it would be unwise for a cricketer to do so

When he doesnt performs, the fans will ask him questions after questions and will insult him openly. Also, the fans will ask him questions that he'd prefer not to answer, questions like Are you satisfied, who do you think should be dropped and stuffs

And to add the that our players, no one apart from nafees or mushfiq really knows how to present themselves in front of public. And to add to that our players dont know proper english and so it would be very difficult for them to communicate in this forum, where most are fluent in english

Tamim can definitely speak English well - I believe he had an English medium education like many on this forum. Shakib's spoken English seems to be improving with each post-match ceremony haha.

It would be nice if a moderated chat with the players could be organised where the questions are vetted by the moderators so as to exclude abuse/obscenity/etc. (Like the chat that happened with Mushy and Razzak in WC 2007) Otherwise, I agree, they may be disheartened by some of the angry/frustrated comments here.

[shuziburo]

I also am not sure whether it is wise to have the players in BC. Some players have weak psyche, and the criticism we sometime tend to lavish could easily destroy a player's confidence. I have given up on Ash, but if Ash were to spend a day at BC, he almost certainly will give up on himself...

Originally Posted by playmaker
I think it would be unwise for a cricketer to do so

When he doesnt performs, the fans will ask him questions after questions and will insult him openly. Also, the fans will ask him questions that he'd prefer not to answer, questions like Are you satisfied, who do you think should be dropped and stuffs

And to add the that our players, no one apart from nafees or mushfiq really knows how to present themselves in front of public. And to add to that our players dont know proper english and so it would be very difficult for them to communicate in this forum, where most are fluent in english

[M.H.Rubel]

Hi Shane this is nice to find u here.My question to you.
In home series normally in ODI play with 2pacer+2SLa+2Part time offi.This is quiet effective no doubt.But thinking about future we should play with 3 pacers.So what u r thinking about the bowling combination?

[bujhee kom]

Salaam coach Jurgensen, a very warm welcome to Banglacricket!

[playmaker]

A VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION

Weve heard fans, BCB members, newspapers and only coach Law talked about the Pakistan tour. But none of the players view have been heard. Do you think the players are not that brave enough to go to Pak or are they just carefree and hoping that nothing will happen?

Not asking your personal point of view because that could raise some issues

[playmaker]

and also explain why our bowlers just cant bowl yorksers? even to tail enders?

[zinatf]

Nice work Coach. Give my congratulations to Stuart as well. I'm really impressed with the team's performance. The bowling was pretty good. Shahadat was too good. Don't know what happened to Mash. I'm especially impressed to see the running between the wickets coming from our BD batsmen. They have shown maturity and did not get themselves out in irresponsible shots, but at good bowling by Pakis unfortunately. Anyways, best of luck to Team BD for the following matches

[Crisis]

Welcome coach. Please make sure Nazmul plays!

[playmaker]

The guy seems to be quite inactive on BC. even pont visits BC almost every day

[TigerEz]

how u guys get all this coaches to join BC? i mean its a good thing but how?