Griffith back in town with good news for Tas

ADAM Griffith’s time with the Australian World Cup squad has only reaffirmed his belief Tasmanian cricket is on the right track to returning to a domestic powerhouse.

Griffith joined Australia’s 50-over campaign in England as an assistant coach, but also used the opportunity to gain experience implement Tigers.

He returned home late last week armed with several new ideas — but said much of how the country prepares is already being done at local levels.

“You are always looking to learn, that’s something that I love to do and something that we try and have as one of our to potentially methods for the key pillars here of what we do at Cricket Tas,” Griffith said.

“We are always continually learning and trying to get better and once you get up to that level, it’s the world’s best.

“We’d be silly if we didn’t try and look at things that they do … is there stuff that we can use in our program, can we tweak it to what we can do here?

“Then you’re watching other countries go about it too, they come from different cultures and a different way of doing things and it’s always fascinating to see how subcontinent teams prepare, how England prepares, how South Africa prepares.

“At the end of the day though they’re all just cricketers preparing to play. They’re the best players in the world so the basics and the fundamentals are still the same and if anything it probably just reaffirms what we do here is on the right track.

“I will sit down with our staff here and I’ve got some ideas on some things we can bring in, but a lot of it did just reinforce some of the stuff we were already doing here.”