How English cricket became John Buchanan’s plaything
It appears to be worse than we thought.
Cricket Coaching Genius™ John Buchanan is now in the UK on a “fact-finding” mission for a week. But, according to Cricinfo, the ECB are essentially going to allow Buchanan to invent a job for himself. In corporate speak, we are told that he will be
presenting a proposal to David Parsons, director of England’s National Performance centre in Loughborough, regarding a future role within the England set-up
Which means inventing his own job. Has anybody else spotted what might be out of place with this scenario yet?
The ECB seems to have read one of those tutorials you get on the web about how to conduct an interview if you are an employer. You know the kind of thing – what sort of questions to ask, how to see past the self-promotional guff. There’s always a question in there along the lines of “so, what do you think you can bring to [insert company name here]“. I suspect that Giles and co. stopped reading when they got to this one.
Giles: I have a cunning plan.
David: Just as well, cos I’ve got nothing. What is it?
Giles: We’ll just ask Buchanan to tell us what he should do when we employ him.
David: You mean, let him choose?
Giles: Exactly.
David: That’s a brilliant idea. That way we won’t have to decide anything for ourselves. The counties will be pleased.
Giles: And if it all goes wrong, it won’t be our fault. We won’t be able to understand all the big words he’ll use in the interview anyway, so there’s no way anyone could blame us.
David: That sounds like due diligence to me.
The ECB will no doubt welcome any Australian with open arms, and the fact they have heard of him will be the cherry on the cake. They have also offered to shine his shoes whenever he drops into the office.
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