"Make 700 and bowl them out for under 150 on the last day," Buchanan told a news conference when asked about his team's strategy.
As Australia's first foreign cricket coach, Mickey Arthur will have to overcome a lot many "cultural issues" during his tenure, feels the team's former coach John Buchanan.
Media reports said the former Australia coach Kolkata IPL team, owned by Shah Rukh Khan's Red Chillies Entertainment, will sign up next week.
Never an admirer of John Buchanan's style of functioning, spin legend Shane Warne said the Kolkata Knight Riders coach's multiple-captain theory would only confuse the players.
During Buchanan's time in charge, the Australians set a world record of 16 consecutive Test wins and 21 straight limited-overs victories.
Sachin Tendulkar is not fit for Twenty20 cricket since he is neither inventive nor fearless, according to former Australia coach John Buchanan, in his book The Future of Cricket: The Rise of Twenty20.
BCCI secretary Niranjan Shah feigned ignorance about a reported indirect approach made by the Indian Board to Australia's World Cup-winning coach John Buchanan to take over the reins of the team.
John Buchanan on day said he was "shocked and disappointed" at being sacked as the Kolkata Knight Riders' coach by franchise owner Shah Rukh Khan because the actual deal was to build the team over five years. Buchanan could not help the team's cause in the first two years of the Indian Premier League (IPL) and the KKR finished bottom-placed in the second season while courting maximum number of controversies, including the Australian's multiple-captaincy theory.
Former Australia coach John Buchanan has been appointed as a consultant by England to help Andrew Strauss's team win the Ashes in Australia for the first time in 24 years.
Praising Sri Lanka's mystery bowler Ajantha Mendis's showing against the star-studded Indian batting line-up in the just concluded three-Test series, former Australian coach John Buchanan says the youngster should be judged on a long-term basis. "Mendis reminds me a bit of Johnny Gleeson, though he releases the ball much quicker, is taller and stronger. He also has good change of pace," he told newspersons in Mumbai on Tuesday.
John Buchanan, coach of the Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League (IPL), will conduct a two-day talent hunt camp in the city from September 4. The two-day search for new faces by the veteran Aussie may, however, be reduced to a courtesy trip with incessant rains threatening to play spoilsport.
John Buchanan thinks the loss in Mumbai proved that his team has to find a fresh approach to tackle VVS Laxman and Sachin Tendulkar.
Former Australian coach John Buchanan has called on the International Cricket Council (ICC) to launch a dramatic "intervention" to save West Indian cricket.
Former Australian coach John Buchanan has come up with a wacky idea to revamp "boring" ODI cricket, suggesting that one-dayers be played in quarters of 25 overs each.
"He's obviously batted very well in the last two games and he's a key player for them," said Buchanan.
Former Australian skipper Michael Clarke has stood by his criticism for former coach John Buchanan, but has admitted that his 'dog' reference for the coach was a step 'too far'.
Former Australia medium-pacer Damien Fleming on Tuesday opposed John Buchanan's multiple-captain theory, saying he would prefer one man calling the shots.
With the current situation not conducive for Pakistan players, Kolkata Knight Riders on Monday said the team is not too keen on retaining Shoaib Akhtar and the Pakistani pacer is "up for trade".
'He has not played in Australia, or at least he has not played in Perth in a Test match on a wicket that bounces.'
Former Australian coach John Buchanan on Thursday congratulated Jay Shah on becoming the International Cricket Council (ICC) chairman and expressed hope that the incumbent Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) secretary will be able to make all three formats of international cricket a priority for all in the age of T20 franchise cricket.
Former Australian coach John Buchanan has backed Michael Clarke's side to beat India.
Shane Warne reportedly told a newspaper that Australia coach John Buchanan 'lacked common sense.'
Former Australia captain Michael Clarke, who stepped down after the Ashes series in England, took a shot at his erstwhile team mate Andrew Symonds for questioning his leadership credentials.
Former coach John Buchanan does not consider David Warner as one of the greats of the game.
'I was very, very strong mentally and toughness that I had, and I was able to compartmentalise and no matter what was going on in my life was able to focus on my cricket.'
Coach John Buchanan has dismissed claims his team's World Cup preparations are in disarray after a third straight defeat in a week.
Australia might have taken five spinners to India to tackle the dust-bowl tracks but former coach John Buchanan feels it is the seamers who are likely to make a difference in the four-Test series starting February 22 in Chennai.
Buchanan ends his nearly eight-year stint after next year's World Cup in the Caribbean.
Sourav Ganguly will no longer be the 'fixed' skipper of Kolkata Knight Riders). The team has decided to rotate captaincy in the second season of the Indian Premier League, starting in South Africa on April 18. KKR coach John Buchanan said captaincy would be shared between Ganguly, West Indian Chris Gayle, New Zealand's explosive opener Brendon McCullum and Australian Brad Hodge.
England will become a dominant force in the cricketing world in the next three to four years, according to former Australia coach John Buchanan.
Australian coach John Buchanan has said that the ace leg-spinner is keen on playing the 2007 World Cup
Kolkata Knight Riders team owner Shah Rukh Khan rubbished speculation that Sourav Ganguly is being sidelined by coach John Buchanan's idea to have multiple captains for the Indian Premier League's second season. The Bollywood star said it is just an experiment to have multiple captains and KKR cannot exist without Ganguly.
Off-spinner Harbhajan Singh has hit back at John Buchanan for taking a swipe at some of the Indian cricketing greats, saying he was habituated to being criticised by Australians but surprised at the pot shots on the likes Sunil Gavaskar and Sachin Tendulkar.
Just two days after Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) coach John Buchanan said the team would be having multiple captains in the second season of the Indian Premier League, Sourav Ganguly and team owner Shah Rukh Khan on Saturday met in Mumbai for an ad-shoot for the side. It was last season's permanent skipper Ganguly and Shah Rukh's first meeting after Buchanan expressed his desire to have four captains in the second edition of the IPL.
Pace sensation Ishant Sharma on Wednesday refused to follow the advice of former Australian coach John Buchanan that he needed to build muscles so that his wiry frame could sustain pressures of international cricket. "I don't think I need to build strong muscles. I feel I am completely fit," Sharma said on the sidelines of a function in New Delhi.
Grade three offence means the left-hander could miss eight ODI matches instead of facing a life ban.
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