Former Australia batsman Michael Di Venuto, who’s credited for laying Steve Smith’s path to greatness, has returned to Australian staff as assistant coach for the limited-overs excursions of the West Indies and Bangladesh in July and August respectively.
Although there isn’t any readability over his position, it seems to be seemingly that he’ll settle into the publish of batting coach which he as soon as occupied between 2013 and 2016.
The Australian cricket staff is and not using a batting coach since final 12 months when former England batsman Graeme Hick was made redundant following cost-cutting measures by Cricket Australia.
Assistant coach Andrew McDonald and Andre Borovec, who’s an assistant coach with Victoria males’s staff, may also be a part of Di Venuto underneath head coach Justin Langer for the brief excursions which can be warm-ups for the T20 World Cup and are a part of ODI Super League.
A current assessment performed by Cricket Australia discovered the absence of a batting coach as one in all the causes behind the Test collection defeat in opposition to India this 12 months. Only Smith and Marnus Labuschagne might function amongst the high six run-getters in the collection.
Smith, in the previous, has spoken extremely of Di Venuto’s affect.
“Diva (Di Venuto) has been absolutely fantastic for not only me but I think all of our batters,” Smith was quoted as saying by cricket.com.au.
“His knowledge and experiences in the game are second to none. He has got so much experience to share with us, he throws an endless amount of balls to us at training. I think the advice he gives is outstanding as well.”
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