Warm-up games are inessential - Kirsten

Just when I started appreciating Gary Kirsten’s unobtrusive coaching methods, he ruins it by saying that Warm-up games are inessential .

However, the saving grace is that he admits that the Twenty20 series has enabled them to fine tune their preparations for the New Zealand tour.

His rather off hand comment goes to show that not only is the public memory short a coach’s memory is also short. Kirsten seems to have forgotten how the Indian team struggled in the earlier test series against Sri Lanka without the warm up games.