It was the right time to step down, says Tim Nielsen - Cricket News Update
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Timothy-John-Nielsen-c94043, who recently stepped down as the coach of the Australian cricket team, feels that he made this decision in the best interest of Aussie cricket, and revealed that he consulted with the players before resigning.
Nielsen was made the coach of the Australian team after the ICC Cricket World Cup 2007, when the most successful coach of the history of the game, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/John-Marshall-Buchanan-c68302, decided to call it a day.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Buchanan-c48808 and remained the best team of International cricket by a distance in all the formats of the game.
However, the Kangaroos faced a slump during Nielsen’s reign. The Aussies not only lost the number one ranking in Test cricket, they lost two Ashes series in 2009 and 2010-11, before failing to defend their world title in the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 Cricket World Cup 2011.
As a result, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MJ-Clarke-c1978 and there was immense criticism on the coach as well.
Nielsen feels that he has had a mixed bag with the Australian team but he understands that highs and lows are a part of International cricket. He further expressed that it was the right time for him to step down and allow someone else to take Australian
cricket forward.
The former Aussie coach said, “We've had some tremendous times, some really positive wins as a group, and we've had some tough times. That's the nature of international sport, that's the nature of what I do. It's basically got to a stage where we've sat
down as a family and said are we willing to put ourselves in these positions?”
Nielsen added that Australian cricket has started to move in the right direction once again after the World Cup, and hopes that the new coach will take benefit from that.
“In the end, I thought it was best for myself and for the team that I move on to give whoever takes over the role to start in a really positive environment, which I believe we've set up over the past two to three months,” Nielsen added.
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