{"id":7454,"date":"2019-08-19T10:38:44","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T08:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betcentral.onpressidium.com\/?p=7454"},"modified":"2023-05-31T06:23:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T04:23:05","slug":"get-to-know-proteas-team-director-enoch-nkwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/machibet777-app.com\/1\/get-to-know-proteas-team-director-enoch-nkwe\/","title":{"rendered":"GET TO KNOW PROTEAS TEAM DIRECTOR ENOCH NKWE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h6>19 August 2019, by: Sibusiso Mjikeliso<\/h6>\n<p><\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"color: #339966;\">GET TO KNOW PROTEAS TEAM DIRECTOR ENOCH NKWE<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><\/p>\n<h4>Thabiso Enoch Nkwe was the kind of cricketer that the Proteas could do with in order to add balance to the line up \u2013 a tough as teak, handy all-rounder with a calm demeanour \u2013 says a man who played with and was coached by the new national team director.<\/h4>\n<p><\/p>\n<h4>Stephen Cook (36) knows Nkwe\u2019s competitive drive first hand, after having witnessed it on opposing dressing rooms when they were both rising cricketers in the Johannesburg schools system, the former at King Edward VII School and the latter with St Stithians.<\/h4>\n<h4>They went on to debut for their province, Gauteng, around the same time. And it was Nkwe (36) who made the more blistering start, composing a crafty debut century against Easterns that the record books show was the 13th&nbsp;by a Gauteng debutant in the province\u2019s history.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cWe used to play against each other at school when he was at St Stithians and I was at KES, so we certainly go back a long way,\u201d said Cook.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cIn many ways our careers ran parallel through the age groups and we broke into the Gauteng team at more or less the same time.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cHe was a pretty handy all-rounder but maybe his playing career didn\u2019t quite as go as he would have planned. And that would have been for a number of different reasons, in particular injuries. Injuries set him back significantly.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cHe burst onto the scene very strongly. I remember him getting an excellent First Class hundred against Easterns in his first game, at the Wanderers on a tough wicket. And then soon after he got a five-for against Eastern Province.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cHe was gonna go places but the stop-start nature of his career made it difficult to build up rhythm. But I suppose, certain things turn out a certain way for a reason. Maybe that allowed him to get into coaching a little bit earlier than he would have wanted to and it\u2019s worked out, with him as the interim Proteas team director.\u201d<\/h4>\n<p><\/p>\n<h4>Cricket South Africa raised plenty eye-brows when they named Nkwe as interim team director in this baby new setup that has seen not just the removal of <a href=\"https:\/\/machibet777-app.com\/2019\/07\/09\/proteas-coach-ottis-gibson-stats-and-future\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">head coach Ottis Gibson<\/a> but the position altogether. A director of cricket, currently held in an acting capacity by pathways director Corrie van Zyl, was introduced, followed by a new team director role that Nkwe will fill for the <a href=\"https:\/\/machibet777-app.com\/2019\/08\/14\/proteas-test-squad-talking-points\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tour to India in October<\/a>.<\/h4>\n<h4>There\u2019s been a lot of doubt surrounding the interim appointment. Some have questioned whether the sole season he\u2019s been at the helm at Highveld Lions and Jozi Stars has been enough to give him the national team top job \u2013 notwithstanding that he won three of the four trophies his team competed in, including the inaugural Mzansi Super League.<\/h4>\n<h4>Lions batsman Omphile Ramela was neither surprised by Nkwe\u2019s appointment nor the criticism that followed forthwith.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cFrom what I know of Enoch as a coach, I was not surprised that he got the nod,\u201d Ramela said.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cAnd with how <a href=\"https:\/\/machibet777-app.com\/2019\/07\/08\/proteas-at-the-world-cup-scorecard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">South Africa performed at the World Cup<\/a> there was obviously going to be&nbsp;some type of change and he naturally became the front runner because of the season he had.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cIt\u2019s almost a question of timing, right? Right place at the right time. Sometimes that\u2019s what you need as a coach, is for things to start stacking up in your favour.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cHe is a guy with a vision. He always comes in with a vision and from that perspective, I think he\u2019s got big plans for South Africa and how he wants to influence the system.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cI\u2019ve had the privilege of talking to him about what he wants to do. One thing I can guarantee is that we won\u2019t be visionless. There will be an enormous amount of planning around the team and he will make sure he creates the necessary environment for the team to operate optimally. He kind of cordons the team off to allow it to do its work and he\u2019s a high-performance coach, as one would put it.\u201d<\/h4>\n<h4>And despite having coached in the Netherlands, coached the Gauteng Strikers, the SA \u2018A\u2019 national team and assisted at SA Under 19 level, the naysayers cast heavy aspersions as to whether the <a href=\"https:\/\/machibet777-app.com\/2019\/08\/13\/the-next-generation-of-proteas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">young, relatively inexperienced team that will tour India<\/a>, with a novice international coach, will be competitive. Ramela had a wholely different view.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cI don\u2019t think he would have gotten a different response, even if he had coached for 15 years at franchise level. You\u2019ll always get naysayers,\u201d said Ramela.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cThe guy coached in the Netherlands, ran the high-performance structure there, he was part of the high-performance group in SA, he coached the Strikers \u2026 the guy has close to 10 years of coaching experience.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cHe was part of the SA \u2018A\u2019 team that went to India in 2015, so he has experience of coaching in India, in very tough conditions. He had the exposure. This is South Africa, so of course, he was going to get criticised.<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cI was part of that group and even then you could see that this guy is at that level \u2013 he\u2019s got the desire. I think he will get to India and remind the guys how good they are and how good they\u2019ve been in the past.\u201d<br \/>\nAnd Nkwe himself, what does he make of his &#8220;Voyage to India?&#8221;<\/h4>\n<h4>\u201cI don\u2019t feel this is a suicide mission at all for my career. I was asked a similar question when I took over the Lions. I strongly believe that every challenge is an opportunity to thrive personally or for the team to thrive. It\u2019s important that we create that thriving environment as soon as possible,\u201d he said at his unveiling in Johannesburg last Thursday.<\/h4>\n<h4>Cook also mentioned something interesting, that this new \u201csuper\u201d team director role could be right in the slot for Enoch. \u201cHis strengths are more in the organising, discipline, setting up structures as opposed to pure coaching, getting down to the nuts and bolts. 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