Chris Rogers | Victorian Cricket Team coach (14.05.26)
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What are the highlights of the Victorian cricket team's recent season?
Throughout the cricket season, we plotted the outstanding campaign of Victoria, which ended frustratingly at the Junction Oval not that long ago. The coach, Chris Rogers, has had his contract extended by Cricket Victoria for a further two years, and he's here with me in the studio. Buck, congratulations. Welcome back.
Thank you, Gerard. How are you?
Nice to have the future sorted.
It is. It's an interesting life when you work contract to contract. And I'm sure there's a lot of people out there who do it, but there's always a little bit of unknown, uncertainty about what's next.
Why did Chris Rogers extend his coaching contract with the Victorian team?
And in cricket, it's kind of not like you can go around the corner and get a job there. Sometimes you're thinking, I might have to move overseas and go elsewhere. So then you have to pick up the family and do that. So there's those kind of challenges, but... I'm not going to complain too much. I get to coach cricket for a living. It's a pretty good life.
Are you excited to have the two years? Because the journey, you can see the journey and clearly the mission is not accomplished.
Yeah, I mean, obviously you think deeply about these kind of things and where you are as a coach as well.
What challenges do coaches face when working contract to contract?
But one of the overriding factors was the fact, I think this group is really, really starting to come into a special time. You don't achieve what they did, even still probably the youngest group in the competition. without um you know unbelievable talent um and skill and and uh and commitment so I feel like there's there's there's a lot more to come with this group um and one of the real special hopefully bits of the journey will be seeing a number of these players um further their careers going on to you know play for Australia do other things and and you kind of want to be on that journey you you want to You want to be there when you see them get the baggy green or something like that. That's going to be very, very special moments.
And we're getting a bit of a snapshot with that with Ollie Peak. But yeah, that's something that I'm really looking forward to.
How did you digest the disappointment right at the end of the Shield final?
Uh, I've had a bit of time to think about it. Um, it is interesting. I was, I was, I knew you were gonna ask that question, Gerard. I thought about that and I was watching Fug Swing, the, the, the golf documentary and, and, and Tommy Fleetwood, who, you know, who'd gone through his own journey of, of number of seconds. And, and, you know, he just said, um, along the lines of look, it's, it was immensely disappointing, but it's just gonna make it that much sweeter when, when you do one and, and you just gotta crack on and, and, and we're gonna crack on and, and. And I think if we keep doing the right things, then eventually it'll go our way. And yeah, that will be a very special moment for the group.
It's at the end of the season. Have you reviewed it already? What happens when you come back is how are you going to use it?
Yeah, we've reviewed it. And there's mixed feelings about it. I think there's, you know, there's the recency bias where you're kind of frustrated with what happened in the end. We're so close. I mean, I still think we were one ball away from winning that game when we had them seven for 60 effectively in the second innings. If we'd got one wicket there, their last couple of batters, you know, wouldn't have held out and given Kerry that support. So, yeah. You know, you put things in context. Their number nine, McAndrew, he played and missed 16 times. You know, he could have been out any moment. And down the other end was Alex Carey, one of the best performers for Australia in recent times. And it happens.
You lose a game of cricket. But, you know, for 23 of the 24 weeks, we were the best side. And don't forget that we're doing it with a young group, with a Victorian-based group, and we should be really, really proud of that. But we know that there's more to come. I think we've... You know, what we really leant into last year was that pride of wearing the big V, playing for Victoria.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What are the highlights of the Victorian cricket team's recent season?
0:00–0:33
2
Why did Chris Rogers extend his coaching contract with the Victorian team?
0:33–1:14
3
What challenges do coaches face when working contract to contract?
1:14–4:30
4
How does Chris Rogers assess the potential of his young players?
4:30–10:04
5
What lessons were learned from the Shield final disappointment?
10:04–12:15
Speakers
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