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Nathan Gibbs	Gibbs continues to work in the rugby league arena and is also club doctor for the Sydney Swans where he was appointed Life Membership on 1 October 2010.
Rodger Gifford	At the end of 2006, in response to an impending shortage of assistant referees at Cymru Alliance League level, he circulated a letter informing leagues of the initiation of an FA of Wales referee recruitment drive.
Wayne Bennett (rugby league)	2006 NRL Grand Final celebrations in Brisbane.
Herb Gilbert	Three of Gilbert's sons all played for St. George with Herb Junior and Jack playing in the Dragons' maiden Grand Final victory in 1941.
Bob Simpson (cricketer)	Simpson made his coaching swansong at the 1996 Cricket World Cup on the Indian subcontinent, where Australia overcame a forfeit to Sri Lanka in the group phase due to a Tamil Tiger bombing.
Jason Stanton	He also served as a skills coach to the Queensland Reds in 2009.
Hashan Tillakaratne	In May, he was appointed the president of the Association of Cricket Umpires and Scorers of Sri Lanka (ACUSSL) and the Sri Lankan cricket board appointed him as National Cricket Team Manager in July 2008.
Kevan Barbour	He was an umpire at the 2003 Cricket World Cup and is a member of the ICC's International Panel of Umpires and Referees.
Ian Johnson (cricketer)	He would remain in the role for 26 years, overseeing the development of the Melbourne Cricket Ground and playing a key role in the organisation of the Centenary Test in 1977.
Freddie Brown (cricketer)	The 1950 -- 51 England team under Brown's captaincy was regarded as one of the weakest sent to Australia and John Kay commented that without the key players Alec Bedser and Len Hutton, England's standard would have been little better than that of a club team.
Duncan Fletcher	It was later announced, on 19 April 2007, that his 8-year tenure as coach was to end following England's final Super 8 match against the West Indies on Saturday 21 April 2007.
Jerry Collins	In October 2007, following New Zealand's exit from the 2007 Rugby World Cup, Collins was vacationing in Devon when he was spotted by Barnstaple head coach Kevin Squire who invited him to watch it play at the weekend.
Richie Blackmore (rugby league)	In 2012 he was to be appointed coach of the Leigh Centurions, however visa concerns meant he was instead appointed as the club's Business Development Manager, starting his position in April 2012.
Graham Henry	On 1 November 2011, Henry announced he would step down as coach, finishing his All Blacks career as one of the most successful rugby coaches of all time : he coached the All Blacks to 88 wins in 103 tests for a winning percentage of 85.
Mark Hammett	After the 2011 Super Rugby season -- his first season in charge -- Hammett decided not to renew the contracts of All Blacks Ma'a Nonu and then Hurricanes' captain Andrew Hore.
Mark Greatbatch	In January, 2010, Greatbatch was appointed the coach of the NewZealand national cricket team.
Neale Daniher	On June 29, 2007, he officially announced that Round 13 clash against Essendon will be his last game as Melbourne Demons coach.
Dipak Patel (cricketer, born 1958)	Since retiring in 1997, he has coached at a provincial (first-class) level in New Zealand, notably for Central Districts and the New Zealand under 19 team.
Waqar Younis	He resigned as Pakistan's cricket coach on 19 August 2011 citing personal reasons.
Saleem Malik	He claimed to have accepted an offer by the PCB to work as the Chief Coach for country's National Cricket Academy on 3 November 2008 just days after the ban was lifted, however, the PCB denied making any such offer.
Kieran Foran	Early in the 2012 NRL season Hasler is believed to have talked to the young five-eighth after Foran activated a get-out clause in his current Manly contract (allowing him to leave the club should Hasler no longer be the First Grade coach).
Ray Dunn	The following year, he was elected president with the specific brief to negotiate the move of the club's home games to the Melbourne Cricket Ground for 1965.
Zameer Haider	He got a contract from Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) along with Ahsan Raza and Shozab Raza in 2012.
Rudi Koertzen	Koertzen announced his decision to retire in June, and his last assignment as an international Umpire was the second and final Test between Pakistan and Australia played at Headingley from 21 to 24 July 2010.
Ebony-Jewel Rainford-Brent	On 14 April 2008 Rainford-Brent was named as one of eight members of the England Women's team offered a coaching contract in partnership with the Cricket Foundation and the England and Wales Cricket Board.
John Mitchell (rugby union)	On 29 October 2011 it was Kiwi against Kiwi in the 2011 Currie Cup final when Mitchell's Golden Lions hosted a star-studded The Sharks rugby team under fellow Kiwi John Plumtree in Johannesburg.
Rameez Raja	He has also worked as the chief executive of the Pakistan Cricket Board, but resigned from his job in August 2004, citing increasing media commitments.
Michael McLean (footballer)	At the end of the 2005, as Redland seemed destined for the wooden spoon, he resigned and returned to Darwin to again coach Nightcliff.
Ian Gould	As an Umpire, Gould was appointed to stand in 3 matches of the 2007 Cricket World Cup in the Caribbean.
Robert Pyman	He then turned to coaching and was an assistant to Dean Laidley at North Melbourne before becoming South Adelaide's coach in 2004.
Desmond Haynes	After his retirement from the game in 1997 Haynes has served as Chairman of Selectors of the Barbados Cricket Association, President of Carlton Cricket Club, Secretary of the West Indies Players Association and is currently a Director of the West Indies Cricket Board.
Graham Gooch	In November 2009 Gooch was selected as a'' temporary'' batting coach for the impending four test tour of South Africa and to support ex-Essex colleague, Head England Coach Andy Flower Gooch's commitment to England cricket and passion for the game remains.
George Hook	He coached London Irish and Connacht as well as the United States national team in the 1987 Rugby World Cup.
Mike Veletta	In 2001 he was appointed coach of the Western Warriors ; however the Western Australian Cricket Association terminated the contract after two years of the three year contract.
Shoaib Malik	Malik was appointed captain on 19 April 2007 by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), his experience considering his relatively young age and consistent performances were cited as other reasons for his appointment.
Mark Benson	On 5 February 2010 it was announced that Benson was retiring from international cricket umpiring, but would continue to umpire domestic cricket in England.
Steve Hansen	His only defeat as coach in 2012 came against England, a 38 -- 21 loss on 1 December 2012 in the 2012 end-of-year rugby union tests.
Jackie McGlew	In 1991 -- 92, when post-apartheid South Africa was re-admitted to world cricket, he was picked as manager of the first visit by a South African team to the West Indies, the Under-19 tour.
Rex Alston	His first major cricket commentary was on the Old Trafford'' Victory Test'' in 1945, as a deputy for Howard Marshall.
Gorden Tallis	During the 2010 NRL season it was announced that South Sydney Rabbitohs head coach John Lang would be replaced by Wigan's Michael Maguire, and that Tallis' services as forwards coach would no longer be required.
Louis Luyt	He was president of the South African Rugby Union when the Springboks, the national team, won the Rugby World Cup in 1995 at their first attempt after returning to international competition after more than a decade of isolation.
Ranjan Madugalle	In 1988 he was appointed captain of the Sri Lankan cricket team, but his team troubled neither Australia, nor England under Madugalle's leadership.
Shane Bond	due to Bond's involvement with the Delhi Giants in, the' rebel' Indian Cricket League during March 2008, which caused the New Zealand cricket board to terminate his central contract in January 2008.
Ilivasi Tabua	On 19 August 2009 Tabua was sacked by the Fiji Rugby Union citing off-field incidents during Fiji's 2009 IRB Pacific Nations Cup campaign.
Wayne Bennett (rugby league)	In round 4 of the 2009 NRL season Bennett returned to Suncorp Stadium with the Dragons and for the first time coached against the club he helped build.
John Hart (rugby coach)	Mains coached the All Blacks to the final of the 1995 Rugby World Cup, which was won by South Africa, continued as coach for a year-end tour to France, after which he resigned and was replaced by John Hart.
Graeme Langlands	An incident renown in Australian rugby league concerns Langlands playing for the Dragons in the 1975 NSWRL Grand Final against Jack Gibson (rugby league)'s coached Eastern Suburbs Roosters.
Bob Simpson (cricketer)	The 1992 -- 93 saw another tour to Australia by the West Indies, the only team against which Simpson was yet to record a series victory as coach.
John Monie	In 1995 he returned to the Australasian competition, being made head coach of the new Auckland Warriors franchise.
Walter Winterbottom	When he joined the FA in 1946, club directors, managers and players were cynical about the need for coaching but Winterbottom had a passion for coaching and a vision of how it should develop.
Jim Cardwell	Due to his talent for convincing players to sign with Melbourne rather than rival teams, Cardwell was called'' The Prince of Secretaries'' Cardwell retired at the end of the 1975 season, Cardwell recruited many of Melbourne's premiership greats, including Laurie Mithen, John Beckwith, Frank Adams, Brian Dixon, Athol Webb, Tassie Johnson, Ian Ridley, Bob Johnson and Hassa Mann.
Royce Simmons	In November 2012, Simmons was named assistant coach at NRL side Wests Tigers.
Kamran Akmal	After another horrendous series behind the stumps against Sri Lanka in January 2009 journalists and former players called for his removal from the national team.
Denis Fitzgerald	Midway through the 2009 NRL season the troubled Parramatta Eels club removed Fitzgerald, then the longest-serving club CEO in the competition's history, replacing him with Paul Osborne.
Greg Matthews	On 24 January 2009, he bowled Australia opener Phil Jaques for 5 with his first ball when Sydney University was playing Sutherland.
Laurie Nash	Miller later declared that the non-selection of Nash as a regular Test player was'' the greatest waste of talent in Australian cricket history'', adding that Australian captain Don Bradman wanted Nash in the side to tour England in 1938 but that Nash'' suffered injustices at the hands of high-level cricket administration'', who refused to consider his selection.
Waqar Younis	In March 2006, he was appointed as the bowling coach for Pakistan.
Sam Mitchell (footballer)	On 6 October 2007, during the Peter Crimmins Medal Event, he was announced as Hawthorn's next captain, taking over the reins from retiring captain Richard Vandenberg.
John Wright (cricketer)	In January 2013 Wright was appointed head coach of the Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League competition.
Ray Jennings	In October 2004 Jennings was appointed coach of the South Africa national cricket team on a short-term contract, he had previously coached South Africa A. Under Jennings, South Africa played four Test series, losing to India and England before beating Zimbabwe and the West Indies.
David Gallop	During the summer of 1994 -- 95, Gallop was working as an associate with the Sydney law firm Holman Webb, and playing cricket on weekends with a University of NSW side.
Chris Connolly	In 2001 he coached one game for the Hawthorn Football Club (in round 17 against Carlton) in the absence of the regular head coach, Peter Schwab, who suffered from an irregular heartbeat.
Conrad Hunte	Some reports suggest that the other members of the West Indies team became tired of his constantly expressing them in the dressing room, and that this contributed to his not being awarded the captaincy in 1963.
Arani Jayaprakash	He was not selected to umpire a Test match after the Elite Panel of ICC Umpires was instituted in April 2002.
Gene Miles	The following year, he announced his retirement from representative football so he could concentrate on his job as captain of the fledgling Brisbane club, helping the Broncos to the play-offs for the first time in 1990.
Kurt Gidley	During a team bonding session on 10 June 2010 Gidley's ex teammate and friend Andrew Johns who at the time was the NSW assistant coach caused controversy when it emerged that he had encouraged a player to attack Queensland player Greg Inglis, referring to him as a'' black cunt''.
Gubby Allen	In July 1954, Allen was involved in the selection of the MCC team to tour Australia in 1954 -- 55 ; he attended the selection meetings as the MCC's representative.
Stuart Dickinson	Dickinson was publicly criticised by IRB referees manager Paddy O'Brien for his refereeing of the scrums in the Italy v New Zealand Test Match at the San Siro Stadium in Milan on 14 November 2009.
Murray Weideman	Weideman was quickly replaced by former multiple time Richmond premiership coach Tom Hafey for the 1977 VFL season.
Ryan Houlihan	Houlihan was appointed coach of Greater Western Sydney Football Club's' Academy' players for 2012 and also joined the Sydney Hills Eagles in their debut season in the North East Australian Football League Eastern Conference as a player and assistant coach.
Johnny Owen	Guided by manager and trainer Dai Gardiner, Owen steadily grew to dominate the domestic bantamweight scene and by the end of 1978 felt ready to take on his first, big, international test.
Gubby Allen	Allen's final series as chairman was against Australia in 1961 ; England lost after making tactical mistakes in the fourth Test, when they did not follow the plan conceived by May and Allen at the start of the final day.
Daniel Anderson (rugby league)	He took the Warriors to another Finals series in 2003, the same year he replaced Gary Freeman as head coach of the New Zealand Kiwis.
Daniel Anderson (rugby league)	He guided the Eels to a remarkable 2009 National Rugby League Grand Final from a position where after 18 rounds the Eels were tipped 150/1 to win the NRL.
Ewen McKenzie	On Friday 9 October 2009 it was announced that McKenzie would be taking over the coaching job of the Queensland Reds in the Super 14.
Brian Noble (rugby league)	In June 2009 there was speculation that Wigan Warriors chairman Ian Lenagan had approached New Zealand national rugby league coach Stephen Kearney in relation to succeeding Brian Noble as head coach at Wigan.
Peter de Villiers	In January 2008, De Villiers was appointed as the first ever non-white coach of the Springboks, but South African Rugby Union (SARU) President Oregan Hoskins indicated that his rugby credentials were not the sole motivation for the appointment :'' We have made the appointment and taken into account the issue of transformation when we made it.
Ray Illingworth	Eventually he became the Chairman of England's Board of Test Selectors and the England Cricket Coach in 1997.
Khizer Hayat	In 1994, he and Mahboob Shah were the two Pakistani representatives on the first international panel of umpires, set up by the ICC to ensure that one neutral umpire would officiate in every Test match.
Shoaib Akhtar	In November 2006, an officer assigned to the Pakistan team in India, Anil Kaul, alleged that Akhtar had slapped former coach Bob Woolmer following a fight over the music to be played in the team bus on the eve of ICC Champions Trophy.
David Dein	David Dein was one of the major architects of the formation of the Premier League in 1992, which would re-shape the structure and finances of English football.
Justin Langer	In November 2009, Cricket Australia announced the appointment of Langer as assistant coach of their Test team under national boss Tim Nielsen, as a batting coach and mentor.
Jason McCartney (footballer)	On 19 Oct 2010 the Fremantle Dockers announced they have recruited former AFL player Jason McCartney as a development coach for the next three years.
John Ribot	The turning point was the decision by the NSWRL to sack him from its Premiership Policy Committee in 1993 when he proposed shifting the grand final to the Broncos new home ground, the ANZ Stadium which had a spectator capacity of almost 60,000.
Karmichael Hunt	Prior to the 2006 National Rugby League season, Wayne Bennett, backed by former Broncos halfback Allan Langer, groomed Hunt as a key play-maker, able to steer the play from the halfback position, with the intention of taking pressure off Darren Lockyer and then-halfback, Brett Seymour.
Ken Barrington	After passing a medical Barrington was chosen to manage the MCC tour of India in 1976 -- 77, where his own legendary status was soon emulated that of Tony Greig.
David Nosworthy	In December 2012, Nosworthy was appointed as Somerset County Cricket Club's Director of Cricket, following Brian Rose who stepped down at the end of the 2012 season.
Brian Moore (rugby union)	Having been a vocal critic of referees for many years, Moore took the Rugby Football Union's Entry Level Referee Award course and qualified as a referee in 2010.
Martin Johnson (rugby union)	He resigned on 16 November 2011 following England's poor performance on and off the field at the 2011 Rugby World Cup in New Zealand.
Harry Bath	He again coached the Dragons to premiership success in 1979 after their 17 -- 13 Grand Final victory over Canterbury.
Asad Rauf	In 2004, with the promotion of Aleem Dar to the ICC Elite Umpire Panel, Rauf was included in the International Panel of Umpires for the first time.
Timana Tahu	On 12 June 2010 Tahu walked out of the New South Wales State of Origin camp because of an alleged racial slur made by assistant coach Andrew Johns.
Richard Lewis (tennis and rugby league)	In April 2012, Lewis was appointed Chief Executive Officer at Wimbledon following a successful career at the RFL and Chair of Sport England.
Thomas Ellison	Ellison was a Wellington provincial administrator, and in 1893 at the inaugural NZRFU annual general meeting proposed the playing strip for the first officially sanctioned New Zealand side -- black cap, black jersey with white fern, white knickerbockers and black stockings.
Monty Panesar	The likelihood of Panesar playing against Australia in the 2006-07 Ashes series led to media commentary by some Australian players, who indicated that they would take an aggressive approach towards him.
Alan Joyce	Alan Joyce returned for the 1991 season to coach Hawthorn to another premiership, this time over the West Coast Eagles, who during the home and away season, had lost only three games, plus an additional loss to Hawthorn in the first week of the finals.
David Saker	After Saker's key role in the team winning the 2010 -- 11 Ashes series, he was handed a new three year contract.
Fumiaki Tanaka	Tanaka was not seen as one of the top prospects in Japan whilst at University, but after joining the Panasonic Wild Knights in 2007 he played alongside former All Blacks fly half Tony Brown who was credited with helping him to develop immensely and Tanaka himself cites Brown as one of the most important influences on his career.
Jack Matthews	Matthews was a general practitioner by profession and travelled with the 1980 Lions on their tour of South Africa as the team doctor.
Happy Hammond	He was accorded the honour of running through the banner with the Geelong players on Grand Final day 1963.