Our culture unfortunately is not very oriented towards the professional lifestyle modern cricketers need to pursue.
Domestic cricket has always been limited to a stroll to the stadium, and then back home for evening tea/time with family. Cricketers who want to pursue a test career better take this into consideration. While players who are in the late 20s need to be prepared to lead life away form kids/wife etc, the youngsters will have to miss Nanees winter pitha and stuff. This is probably what Gordon's main contribution was...he (while not at all tacitly) pointed these out to the Akram's/Nannu at a time when BD was about to cross the threshold and enter a new level.
Right now we are at the level, the highest level possible. There is no other level to go to. They will have to strive for incremental gains so that they can justify there presence at this level. Therefore, a coach in my opinion has to focus entirely on team tactics and quality infusion.
If he were visionary - like Barlow, that would be a plus. But you need a vision only once, not every few years. And as far as I know, Barlow had already provided that vision, and under Saber's time, it was well captured in documentation.
All we have to do now is implement that vision - and that is entirely left up to the current and future administrators.
Its just that, in a realistic sense, we cannot afford to pay a coach oogles of additional Taka just because he also has vision in his portfolio.
WANTED: Cricket coach(S) who realizes current international technique requirements, is able to teach that to the national team players, and provide good game preparation tactics.
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