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The Great Coaches Podcast

https://thegreatcoachespodcast.com
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
There is no algorithm for leadership, so we interview great coaches to try and find ideas to be a better leader.

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Q: Glenn Pocknall is a cricket coach with over 20 year’s experience at the elite level. He started coaching in 2002, learning through leading youth representative teams. He eventually joined the Wellington Firebirds in the New Zealand National league as an Assistant coach.
He then went to England, Ireland, and the Netherlands to gather international experience and in eventually returned to New Zealand and became the Wellington Head Coach. In that role he led the team to win all 3 domestic titles, Ford Trophy (50over) in 2019, Plunket Shield (four day) in 2020 and back-to-back Super Smash (t20) titles in 2020 and 2021. In 2021 he was given his first chance to lead the New Zealand National team in a T20 series.

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Q: Mike Hesson is New Zealand cricket coach.

He started his coaching career in his early 20’s while playing in the UK. From there he progressed through Assistant coaching before accepting the role as Argentina’s head coach in 2003. He returned to New Zealand and became Head Coach of Otago and leading them to the 2008 one-day trophy and the 2009 T20 championship.

In 2011 he took on the job of Head Coach of Kenya before being appointed the Head Coach of the New Zealand national team, the Black Caps in 2012. He went on to take them from a One-Day international ranking of 8th to 2nd by the time he left the role in 2018. He finished his tenure as one of the most successful coaches in the nation’s history with highlights including a record breaking 13 game winning streak. He has gone on to coach the Kings in the IPL and Islamabad in the Pakistan Super League

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Mike Hesson is New Zealand cricket coach.He started his coaching career in his early 20’s while playing in the UK. From there he progressed through Assistant coaching before accepting the ...