Player, Then Performance: Dinesha Devnarain on Building Cricketers and Leaders
GSport | 10.06.2026 22:00
Dinesha Devnarain calls herself a compassionate coach. She also refuses to let anyone confuse that with going easy. In a decade that has carried her from the end of her playing career to the centre of South Africa’s women’s cricket pathway, the head coach of the SA Under-19 Women and the Cricket South Africa Women’s National Academy has built her work on a single idea, that the person comes before the cricketer. As she puts it:
