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How Gibson set up SA Elite Fastbowling Group

 
LBW375 2019-01-10 07:54:40 

Forget elite honesty, all South Africa have needed to make home a fortress is elite fast bowling. Under Ottis Gibson, South Africa have now won five home Test series in a row, and key to that success has been a reinvigorated pace culture: a coach rooted in Barbadian pace traditions has been at the forefront of a South African fast-bowling renaissance.

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Big difference is the South African team have professionals with a deep seated desire to be among the best they want to be among the best and are willing to put in the hard work, take advice, identify and correct weaknesses

Our cricketers want to have a few years of fat paychecks, and are quite happy to put in a good performance or 2 for the year.

Over 20 years of various captains saying "our batting/bowling/fielding let us down, we need to learn from this match and improve going forward"

We never seem to learn.


We the fans excuse the players. We defend them/call for elevation because we are their fellow countryman, we make up names like Opiss to denigrate the efforts of the coach. We support the players when the complain about their workload..

 
Khaga 2019-01-10 07:58:33 


Under Ottis Gibson, South Africa have now won five home Test series in a row

 
LBW375 2019-01-10 08:00:49 

In reply to Khaga

Wish we had won 2 home series in a row

 
Khaga 2019-01-10 08:03:20 

In reply to LBW375

Didn't Gibson get a lot of support from the CWI?

 
Emir 2019-01-10 08:04:21 

In reply to LBW375

Crap.

Saffies already had their set up and winning at home is the norm for the Saffies. Gibson did nothing.

He just "coaches." Now tell, how have he coached Dale or Hash of Faf?

 
Pacy 2019-01-10 08:48:52 

In reply to LBW375

Was SA losing before Otis took over?

 
Walco 2019-01-10 09:01:33 

In reply to LBW375

The continued presence of the greatest of all South African fast bowlers will breed confidence in rest of the attack, as will home tracks weighted in favour of seam and swing.

Someone needs to tell Liam Brickell that the wicket has nothing to do with swing rolleyes

 
Walco 2019-01-10 09:08:02 

In reply to LBW375

"Since I've been here, over the last 12 months, we've set up what we call an elite fast-bowling group," Gibson explained after South Africa's four-pronged demolition of Pakistan in the second Test at Newlands. "Coming from the Caribbean, I believe that fast bowling is the bedrock. Most of the teams that dominated world cricket have always had strong fast-bowling stocks."

The fast-bowling programme was launched ahead of the 2017-18 season after Gibson held a series of meetings with the leading franchise and high-performance coaches on his arrival in South Africa. The aim was to widen the pool of elite fast bowlers in the country, and it has worked.

"We've looked at how we can find out what we have with regards to fast bowling, nurture it, and then get it all together under one umbrella so we know what guys are doing," he said. "We manage workloads. We look at actions, if any actions need tweaking. We have a group of people looking after that, from sports scientists all the way down to trainers and stuff like that. That's only going to grow and get better.

Gibson tried to do the same when he coached the WI team until the egos of Pybus and Dave interceded to put the "arrogant bajan" in his place. Gibson tendered his resignation to CWI at least twice before he was "fired" smile It reminded me of the recent "firing" of General Mathis by Individual 1 smile

 
natty_forever 2019-01-10 09:10:02 

In reply to Walco… "tracks" has a broader meaning, involves weather conditions etc.

big grin

 
natty_forever 2019-01-10 09:10:50 

Suh is the players that fired Otis!?

 
Khaga 2019-01-10 09:21:44 

Otis had HPC right in his backyard to transform into an excellence center..

 
Jumpstart 2019-01-10 13:21:45 

In reply to Pacy
The only tour that the previous coach domingo lost was against England who also beat them at home but everyone looses to England away band when they lost to at home, they were going through a transition period with morkel injured, rabada new and a questionable hiatus from tests from AB

 
Khaga 2019-01-10 13:26:17 

SA got their arses kicked by SL 0-2 in July.

 
natty_forever 2019-01-10 13:27:50 

In reply to Khaga… them suffering from Alzheimer.