Coach wants Waugh to relax and enjoy post-Test cricket

0 Comments | AFP, January, 2004

SYDNEY (AFP) — New South Wales coach Steve Rixon wants Steve Waugh, having recovered from his post-Test euphoria, to relax and enjoy himself as the Blues attempt to claw their way back from the wrong end of the Sheffield Shield standings against Victoria.

Rixon believes expected crowds each day of 5,000-plus people in Newcastle, north of here, will give the Blues more of a home advantage than their base at the Sydney Cricket Ground, which is usually virtually empty.

The Blues are second last on the Shield table.

A victory against the pace-setting Victorians will re-ignite their title defence and give Waugh, playing on for the Blues despite his retirement from the Test side, renewed hope of being in one last domestic final before he quits all forms of the...