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James Coles

James Coles

English cricketer

Mar 30, 2026

5:16
Just explain at the stage you're at why, why you, and I don't know who el- who advises you, but why you made that decision this winter.
5:26
Yeah, we w- we...
5:27
And me, my dad, and my agent sat down for...
5:29
Like, we had a quite a few conversations based around it, just because, like, the previous two winters I'd gone away, had a, had a really, like, beneficial tour to India where there was loads of senior players around, um, and I learned so much, and I was a pretty young lad, like, not...
5:45
Didn't really know much about my game.
5:47
And then had a Australia tour, which, which was good, um, but I felt like I was slightly more senior, didn't have as many people to learn off.
5:54
Um, so then I came back from it being like, "Oh, maybe haven't, that hasn't helped me as much as I had going into the season."Um, but then I guess the tour going to Aus, it would have been gone because there was, you know, the Test lads around.

11 MINS LATER

17:17
Just about your experience of working under him, and I think when you were with the Lions in India, you'd have done a bit with Dinesh, would you, Kartik?
29:02
Do you feel that?
29:03
Yeah, definitely.
29:03
I think I, I used to try and, like, have completely different techniques between both formats.
29:10
Um, even bowling and batting.
29:12
Um, bowling, like, action different to white ball and red ball.
29:16
Um, so I've gradually just tried to merge them together because I noticed the first year of The Hundred, um, when I came back from it, I was just completely out of sync.
29:25
So then that messed up my red ball stuff, and then red ball messed up my white ball and all of this.

5 MINS LATER

34:46
... with Quinny in the SA20?

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