3 Major Feats Afghanistan Cricket achieved under coaching of Jonathan Trott

Credit: ICC

Former determined English batter turned coach Jonathan Trott has signed off his coaching stint where it comes to international duties on a positive in the sense that his Afghanistan team (which he has been coaching for the last several cricketing months) ended their preliminary group stage with a vital victory over Canada by 82 runs. It was yet another occasion where under the watchful and protective eyes of Trott, his Afghan team plundered another 200 run score, blanking their opponents to just 118 runs for the loss of 8 wickets.

Having said tha, the able middle order better from England who presided over a respectable test career in which he batted with temerity and class, has capped off his duties but perhaps not with a sigh of relief.

There’s satisfaction the fan can draw with all Jonathan Trott managed to achieve but not the way he signed off from the head coaching job.

Immediately upon his release - not the clearest of matters, if one were to put it so; Trott explained.

“Leaving as Head Coach wasn’t my decision, so that’s all I’ll leave it at really. Maybe the time’s right, maybe it’s not. I don’t know, but I wish my boys all the best for the future!”

This is exactly what Trott, a right handed batter, in his days had to say.

However, one can point to the clear decision of his where he’s not trying to make the entire scenario controversial as no name taking has occurred in what the Englishman had to say.

Maybe that’s a mark of true gents that despite the lack of utter satisfaction or an absence of glee given the situations in which they’ve been treated leading to their exit - they don’t try to dramatise a situation and avoid drama whilst stating facts. Which is what Jonathan Trott did!

That being said let us pause for a moment to recollect all Trott achieved as coach during his term for the Afghans, a unit he galvanised using character building and that ability to truly express themselves being his key forces: