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Episode 142 - Chris Lynn


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In this podcast

4:00 – Welcome Chris Lynn

5:02 – Insights into the IPL

7:34 – Jacques Kallis

9:04 – Establishing culture in an IPL team

10:41 – Changes he made after all his injuries

12:49 – How many years his got left in the game

15:07 – Conditions he looks for to choose tournaments to play in

16:22 – Hitting Ben Hilfenhaus for 5 sixes in a row

18:10 – Problem with the Big Bash last season

19:07 – Choosing a bat

21:10 – His father playing water polo for Australia

23:30 – Nudgee College and the development of high level athletes

26:20 – Being the school prefect & step into leadership

27:40 – Being the Queensland under 12’s captain in League & Cricket

30:55 – Learning discipline early on

33:40 – Where his power hitting style developed

35:00 – Twenty Twenty vs first class cricket

36:50 – The influence of his personal coach Gavin Fitness on his career

40:55 – Entrepreneurship with Playbook.coach

43:30 – Providing access to professional athletes

46:12 – Where his risk taking trait comes from

46:30 – Getting a scholarship at 15 with the Brisbane Broncos and quitting rugby league

49:20 – Scoring 250 in the Sheffield Shield

52:20 – Flat wickets vs Green wickets

53:16 – Andrew Symonds

54:49 – Developing his leadership

56:32 – Coming back from the adversity of discolating his shoulder

59:00 - Why Ricky Ponting was so good as a coach

59:36 - What stopped him quitting cricket

1:01:05 - His focus ahead

1:02:05 - The cut throat nature of the National team

1:04:08 - Virat Kohli

1:05:28 - The aura of Sachin Tendulkar

1:09:12 - Leader he most admires and why

1:09:30 - Favorite venue home and overseas

1:10:36 - What goes through his mind prior to facing a delivery

1:11:42 - Why he loves to open the batting overseas

1:12:22 - Getting better at playing spin

1:14:33 - Bowler he loves to come up against

1:16:13 - 5 people he would invite to a private dinner party

CHRIS LYNN

Chris Lynn is a professional cricketer and is noted as one of the most exciting players in the world cricket. His domestic career started at the Queensland Bulls but he is noted in recent years for his prowess in the twenty twenty form of the game where he captains the Brisbane Heat in the Australian Big Bash and is a star in the Indian Premier League where he opens the batting for the Kolkata Knight Riders.

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