He keeps doing things that go against what you believe. And it’s not helping you, or the team that you captain, improve.

But you have to work together because winning teams are built on a strong relationship between the leaders.

You see, when most coaches and captains have a clash of personalities you soon find it’s not as epic as it first seems.

Because a cricket relationship is like a jar, and the ideas that you share within it are like a bunch of rocks.

Put the big rocks in (the main tactical ideas and concepts on which you both agree) and the jar is almost totally full.

It’s the little things; the stones, pebbles and sand where all the disagreements occur.

Yet we focus on those small things rather than the big rocks.

If we were to remember that most of the time you actually agree with each other, then the points of conflict seem far less of a problem.

First find out what your big rocks are. Talk to each other (and the important senior players in the side) and agree on the main points.

Perhaps it’s how long is ideal to keep the opening fast bowler on for.

You can discuss the options and ideas under your new found climate of respect and trust. You now know you broadly agree and this is just the sand that fills the tiny gaps.

Before long you will find that, actually, your coach isn’t so wrong.

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