Cricket: The coach of Next Black Caps "ideally a Kiwi," said former coach Mike Hesson

The man who will replace Mike Hesson as coach of the Black Caps should ideally be a New Zealander – it is the opinion of the man himself.

Hesson completed his six-year tenure as a New Zealand coach this week. & # 39; & # 39; no doubt "& # 39; – would be for someone with "a real affinity with New Zealand."

"Having skin in the game is important," said Hesson on Martin Devlin of Newstalk ZB . ] "If you do not have it, you can put away your stumps and leave."

"When you have a role like this, you have some demands on your time, and you have to have something on which you rely." 19659002] "What does it mean?" a New Zealander or a person residing in New Zealand, is irrelevant. "

New Zealand Cricket is sifting through its training options, with at least two New Zealands, Gary Stead in Canterbury and Mark O Donnell of Auckland, both with hands in the air.

Hesson admitted that while he was a Experience When he took office in 2012, the cricket coach said, "I was pretty naive about the requirements of this role – I knew how to be a coach, but not some of the subtleties around the international game."

Outside of the World Cup finals in Melbourne in 2015, Hesson's high and low memories are around cricket testing. The defeat that deprived New Zealand of victory over South Africa in Hamilton early last year continues to weigh: let the West Indies win after 600 and have a 309 points lead at Dunedin at the end of 2013 By cons, with the latest test of New Zealand under Hesson, whitening knees against England in Christchurch in April, which "encapsulated that everyone in a team can do"
Hesson said that there was no key ingredient in the success of a coach.

"It's one of those jobs that he's difficult to put in a ball points.It is not just a technical coach, a manager or a program.It is a combination of several different things. "

There admitted: "I'm a bit of a process-oriented guy, and the beauty of any manager is to get a collective approach so that everything the world is buying in what you are trying to do. "

Hesson also admitted that cricket was on his brain most of the time while he was coaching."

"A lot of that of my own choice, I completely immersed myself in the work and gave it all to myself."

"There were certainly times when I was at home, but I did not Was not at home, I was thinking about work.

There was an indication that the players he liked to work with were those who had to give up for their success rather than those for whom it all came more easily. [19659002] And he described how New Zealand became a respected team "

" How did we want to be known as a team, guys agreed that we needed to focus on our work [19659002] "If you stick to the game, the referees and our opposition, it is not going to hurt our performance and will probably give us a bit of direction.You'll not always be perfect, but it 's not going to be good. what we liked to do. "

He can not wait to pick up t20 short-term coaching contracts, but he also wants to become a mentor, coach, coach and work with companies. around leadership, but nothing full-time.

"I was lucky, people did not lose my number."