THREE-TIME Olympic rowing champion Drew Ginn is hoping to reunite the Tasmanian cricket community when he start his new role as Cricket Tasmania high-performance manager next month.
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With limited cricket knowledge, Ginn’s job is get the best out of the state’s elite players and turn around the governing body’s period of poor performance.
Ginn, 42, said he found a Tasmanian lifestyle and the challenge ahead appealing.
“Knowing there’s support for change is critical, and I’m not suggesting everybody is comfortable, but I wouldn't jump at it if it was all travelling pretty well,” he said in Hobart on Wednesday.
“How do you take something that was great in the past that has potentially declined, how do you get it back to it being great and even being better? The community is going to expect a lot as well I’m sure. For me I think if we can all unite, that will make a huge difference.
“One of the examples I’ve just heard is the fact that in the past everyone was united, the community of cricket in Tasmania was working towards a common goal. Maybe in the last five to 10 years that’s been lost.”
The position was created by the former general manager of cricket operations role being split into two jobs.
CT chief executive Nick Cummins said Ginn was the best candidate and that he would play a key role in helping the organisation to potentially become “the best cricket association in Australia, if not the world”.
“It’s Drew’s job to bring everyone together to ensure they’re on message. Ultimately, I think, and this is where we will get a lot of benefit from Drew, is actually bringing fresh thinking and thinking from outside cricket,” Cummins said.
“There’s a lot of ‘this is how we’ve always done it’ so Drew will actually be able to challenge some of those conventions by taking world’s best practice and bringing it into the organisation rather than just Hobart’s best practice or Tasmania’s best practice or even cricket’s best practice.”
Ginn officially starts on July 13.