Carlos Brathwaite

They ate together.

And Imran Tahir made a statement to say, look, he's learned what he's learned.

No, I think he was 36 or whatever.

And Shamsi was probably 26 at the time.

And he was like, I don't want you to wait.

Oh, gosh.

That was actually my wife, so I could be in trouble.

But yeah, Shamsie said that one of the things that Imran Tahir told him, I don't want to wait until you get 36 to learn what I know now.

So just by knowledge transfer and watching him go about his business day in, day out,

you could eventually or he may have eventually saved shamsi five to six years of maturing as we call it so how can we get our players to be in a setup where there's knowledge transfer um educational exchange and then it opens up so much other things you could start having one day where players sit down a financial um

manager comes in and talk to players about managing the finances, nutritionists come in.

Once you have the players there, the availability, then the possibilities are endless.

So again, I'm on the outside, so I might get in and then you might hear, okay, they may have this and you might have that and it might not be possible, but I want to be able to bring those things to the table because I feel as though the players want more.

But we're giving them more in a shorter space of time.

We want everybody to be fit in a month.

We want everybody to bat a thousand balls a day for a month.

Let's put the same amount of work spread over a longer period of time.

Yeah, I think if I look back to generations past, I think what has been the difference between our legends and legends of other countries is that they've gone on to upskill themselves after they finish playing.

So a lot of our legends maybe wasn't interested in coaching, maybe didn't have the passion for it, but they didn't upskill themselves.

So having the knowledge and being able to do it is one thing.