Carlos Brathwaite
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But then there will be a day within that training block where we're batting on a third day, fourth day pitch.
might be there you're chasing they might be there you're saving the game that type of thing so can we use our facilities better i personally think that we can get a little bit more from the contracted players as well um there was a time that i used to pick up one of the contracted players who lived really close to kensington and we would go half hour to use the gym 5 30
a.m or mornings and there was nothing happening at Keynes Internovel at that point in time for him as a contracted player to better himself now if you pay up the money to contracted players you get the players to work for the money and not in a bad way where you're driving them like slaves but why try to slab everything into one month before the four day when you got 12 months in the year
This is a full-time job now, so I want you in that County Noble from Monday to Friday.
You play cricket, club cricket, on Saturday and Sunday, or Monday and Friday.
Let's say it's a fastballer.
You bowl two days on Saturday and Sunday.
I'm not going to be ridiculous to say come in on Monday and bowl 10 or 10 over spell.
No, but you can come in.
This is your office.
Come into the office.
Let's have a conversation about how we can, right, with some of the plans that you work to, some of the players you bowl to, some of the fields you bowl to.
Because it's club cricket, yes, and first class is a step up, but it will be things that can be pushed from club cricket into first class cricket.
And all of a sudden, then you start to build a level of awareness with our player.
One of the things that we always say is, oh, our cricketers mature later.
But why do they mature later?
Because that knowledge exchange comes a lot later.
It's almost like they have to experience it.
And I heard Shamsi say, when he broke into the South African team, Imran Tahir took him under his wing.
They sat next to each other.