{"id":12947,"date":"2019-08-31T06:32:10","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T10:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=12947"},"modified":"2019-08-31T06:54:50","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T10:24:50","slug":"us-reprt-card-has-lessons-for-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=12947","title":{"rendered":"US report card has lessons for Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Della Penna analyses the USA&#8217;s poor performance in the ICC Regional T20 finals:-<br \/>\n&#8220;Don\u2019t hire coaches on three-month contracts&#8230;<br \/>\nThat kind of role is tasked with setting the vision and direction of a national team program structure over several years requiring an extended full-time commitment. It can not be realistically accomplished by someone filling up space as a short-term rental.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also ideal to at least make an attempt at establishing some semblance of a transparent process to achieve that. Followers of the national team may have found it somewhat curious that just hours after Pubudu Dassanayake\u2019s resignation was reported, USA Cricket already had a ready-made press release announcing More and his crew as the new coaching staff.<\/p>\n<p>There was no application process. There wasn\u2019t even a headhunting process. It was simply a case of several board members bringing in some of their old pals from India along with a few others who were recommended.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamcricket.com\/articles\/views\/usa-cricket-2019-icc-t20-wcq-americas-regional-final-report-card-part-3--outlook-for-the-future\/\">Full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Della Penna analyses the USA&#8217;s poor performance in the ICC Regional T20 finals:- &#8220;Don\u2019t hire coaches on three-month contracts&#8230; That kind of role is tasked with setting the vision and direction of a national team program structure over several years requiring an extended full-time commitment. It can not be realistically accomplished by someone filling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12947"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12949,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12947\/revisions\/12949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}