Glenn McGrath to replace Dennis Lillee at MRF academy – Cricket News Update
Glenn McGrath is a likely contender to be considered for the position of coaching director at the famous MRF pace academy. The academy was established with the help of the former Australian spearhead and great Dennis Lillee in 1987.
Lillee has been heading the academy for the last 25 years and is expected to be replaced by his fellow Australian. The former Australian quick will visit Chennai to oversee the short camp in June and then the annual camp in September, also marking the silver
jubilee for the pace academy and will help his fast-bowling heir to adapt to the local conditions while ensuring a smooth transition.
Another former great, South Africa’s http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Warriors-c861 in the recently concluded IPL V and is currently employed as a bowling coach for Proteas.
The selection of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Glenn-Donald-McGrath-c60183 was further made easy due to the fact that the highest-wicket taking fast bowler has no other coaching obligation at his disposal. It is learnt, the lanky fast bowler to draw the same salary as his predecessor who was paid
$200,000 per annum, while the confirmation for the duration of the contract is yet to be finalised.
The 42-year-old former pace man is well respected in the cricketing world for his exploits with the ball; his famous line-length with off the seam movement had become his trade-mark. Nicknamed as ‘Pigeon’, the bowler played 124 Tests for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 and collected
563 scalps; in 250 ODIs he took 381 wickets in a fourteen-year career which made him the second highest Australian wicket taking bowler after http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shane-Keith-Warne-c89672.
The pace foundation, which was founded at the campus of Madras Christian College Higher Secondary School in Chennai, is a coaching clinic to train pace bowlers from all over the world. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Dennis-Keith-Lillee-c53639, as its coaching director and with his vast knowledge,
has menhttp://www.senore.com/Cricket/Thomas-George-Burrows-c93472ored some of India’s most promising new ball bowlers.
T A Sekar, who had a successful partnership with the Australian great and is the current director with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Delhi-c780 Daredevils, paid tribute to the former pace man, “Lillee proved to us what dedication can bring about. Indian cricket will be indebted to him for
guiding the fortunes of many bowlers. Personally, I learnt a lot from him as well.”
His protégés are some of Indian Cricket’s high profile luminaries including the likes of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MM-Patel-c1987 and many others.
“MRF is the only business association of mine where I have worked without a contract. It has been a wonderful relationship built on trust and one that grew stronger with time,” Lillee had said earlier.
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