Meet Mike Young - The American fielding coach of Deccan Chargers

openingbat — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 13:43:00 GMT

From the Deccan Chargers website -

Mike Young

Assistant Coach

Date of Birth:

Dec 21

The 53 year old Mike Young holds a degree in Sports Administration and has been the fielding coach of the Australian Cricket Team for various Test, ODI and T20 series. He brings along his earlier experience as a field manager and coach of the Australian Baseball Team. Mike was awarded the Australian Medal of Merit for Sports Achievement in 2001. He has published various articles and coaching resources.

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Here are more details - Mike is American. He attended University of Wisconsin - River Falls and was a baseball coach in USA in the 80's and 90's. He coached several minor league teams and was part of the Cleveland Indians coaching organization as well.

It was baseball that took him to Australia where he coached the national team and twice won the International Baseball coach of the year in 1997 and 1999. Beginning 2000, he became involved with the Australian cricket team in the areas of catching, throwing and positioning. In 2009, he was named a fielding consultant by India. This is besides his involvement with Deccan Chargers of course.

Here is a link to an article that appeared on Baseball vs Cricket in the fielding context.

And here are links to an article that appeared in the UWRF magazine.

USA Cricketer : Baseball and cricket, fielding coach

Meet Mike Young - The American fielding coach of Deccan Chargers

Mike Young