Ottis Delroy Gibson

Ottis Delroy Gibson (1969) is a cricket coach and former cricketer from Barbados, who played for the West Indies. Quotes You've got to learn to understand your players - try to get to know your players quite quickly - but I also feel it is important that the coach is across planning and organising so that when you go around training everyone knows what their role is; make sure that the environment that you create is one people are comfortable with. If they are and they can build confidence then I guess you will go and express yourself in the sort of way you know you can play. When you go into a new environment, like I did with South Africa, you don't know how you're going to be accepted but you go in there, be yourself with a set of values that you have as a person and a coach; luckily for me that's worked out very well. The culture was already there and the guys looked forward to me coming in and adding something new to what they were already doing and that has paid off. History would probably suggest not. Sir Garfield Sobers is, to my mind, the greatest player that has ever played the game. He never went into coaching. I'm lucky that I've been able to have a lot of one-to-one conversations with him and where our minds operate are at completely different levels. He has a genius mind when it comes to talking about the game of cricket but would that have made him a great coach? I'm not sure. I've been lucky to learn from quite a few. I spent time with the late, great Bob Woolmer. I've learnt a lot from Peter Moores, who is a fantastic guy and a good coach. When we're playing cricket now I continue to learn - whatever country we're playing against I will try to find an opportunity to sit down and talk with the coach. The more conversations I can have with those guys, the more I feel like I will learn. Ottis Gibson and Eoin Morgan explain what makes a good coach, May 23 2018 I’m happy for aggression being shown on the field if it’s coming from a bowler. If a fast bowler is bowling bouncers, to me that’s aggression. When everybody else is chirping and sledging, I’m not sure that’s aggression in my book. The team morale is very good. We are the Proteas, we back each other up. We focus on us and we focus on the cricket. We have to bat better, In the second innings when our best batsmen were facing him (Starc), not to say he wasn’t a threat, but the threat wasn’t as great as when our lower-order batters were facing him. Our top-order batsmen have to bat a lot better. When you look at the nature of the pitch and the Aussie line-up, you feel that you need an extra batsman. We bowled them out twice but we weren’t able to get enough runs in the first innings. You can’t bat badly in your first innings against a top team like Australia and expect to win the match. We gave ourselves a good chance of winning in the end, the poor batting in the first innings cost us. Focus firmly on the cricket, says Ottis Gibson, March 08 2018 External Links Category:Cricket coaches Category:1969 births Category:1960s