Duncan Fletcher

Who was coach? D- Duncan.

Duncan Fletcher.

Were you commentating that?

This is where Nasser br-

They were bottom of the world in the ICC rankings.

Um, so for him to turn English cricket around in the way that he did, working closely with Duncan Fletcher, the new coach, um, and to kind of ...

He was f- he was a very tough leader, and he expected a lot from his team, but he'd always back them up.

Um, and just understanding how his man management got the best out of players, again, that was a really interesting read.

We belong to an England cricket team.

And Duncan Fletcher came in and was one of the longest serving England coaches.

And you know what Duncan was like.

Mm.

Yes, he was

... wasn't he, un- under Duncan Fletcher?

Correct.

I mean, he went on a tour of South Africa.

He missed the team coach.

Uh, Duncan Fletcher did not take kindly to that type of thing.

Yeah.

He was very sort of disciplined-

Uh, then Doug Padgett at Yorkshire, who was my coach from the age of about 16, 17.

And I'd always check in with Duncan Fletcher, uh, when everything was with the England side.

So I, I, I think it's important that you, you have these kind of go-to people away from the England bubble.

But, you know, from what I look from, you know, particularly Rob Key and his appointments over the last few years, he, he likes this, this style of appointment.

And she's telling Brent little anecdotes about each one.

And when she flips to a page with a boy named Duncan Fletcher...

She goes, he wet himself.

And then she and her dad start laughing over the memory as Brent just sits there between them pissed off.

So much nonsense.

How the fuck did all this interesting shit happen in two weeks? Also, if anybody's willing to send Duncan to Newfoundland again, just throw a tip in the tip jar on the Patreon.

We can send him over back there, have a lovely little vacation, and we'll see what other interesting shit happens while

he's there.

4-4 tie sounds like a lot of fun.

I mean, that sounds like a

Duncan special right

there.

I kind of already half made it.

Um, and it also gives you the, the, um, the advantage, as Duncan Fletcher used to talk about, in terms of getting, of being just slightly lower and sort of underneath the, the trajectory of the ball.

Because obviously it's not coming down at you at the same sort of speed, so y- y- you're almost playing it a little bit like they're a slow bowler in the first place.

Um, and it's just, it was a thought that occurred to me.

Just to, um, the Ricky Ponting one, he was under serious heat during the...

A few things were happening in that, uh, Asher series, weren't they? And, you know, the, the, the well-publicized go at Duncan Fletcher on the balcony and that.

It's pretty full on time and the Australian captain and England were coming at us.

Well, E- England had an unbelievable series.