Terming the IPL Twenty20 tournament as more "intense" than Tests or one-dayers, high profile Australian coach John Buchanan has confessed that he found his job with the Kolkata Knight Riders as the toughest assignment of his career.
"The intensity of it is higher than any one-day or Test series I have been involved in," said Buchanan, who is credited to having propelled Australia to dizzy heights during his nine-year tenure but failed to taste even mediocre success with the Shah Rukh Khan-owned franchise.
"The thing with Test and one-day series is that you usually play a few of them a year, but for pure intensity, the IPL is far higher than anything I encountered," he was quoted as saying by the 'Cricinfo'.
"There is a durability required in international cricket - sometimes you are playing nine months or more a year - but for intensity it doesn't come close. (And) From the time the tournament starts to the time it ends, you never stop with the constant traveling and the busy schedule," he added.
Buchanan, who proposed the much-debated multiple-captain theory before the start of the tournament, so far failed to help the Knight Riders taste any success with the Kolkata outfit languishing at the bottom of the points table in the on-going IPL. He, however, sought to clarify the reasons for the team's poor show.
"It isn't skill, ability or character that's held us back, but for whatever reason - some out of our control, some not - it has been pretty evident that some of the players have been tense.
"We obviously have a high expectation of ourselves, and when things don't go your way players can start to play with less freedom. Last night we copped a hammering, so we thought rather than dwell on it we would look to lighten things up a bit," he added.
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