Captaining a cricket team is about man management, according to Mahela Jayawardene, who said his style of leadership was about allowing individuals the space to express themselves within a framework of rules. Joe Torre Jersey . Jayawardene was speaking on ESPNcricinfo Talking Cricket, to be aired on July 22 on SONY ESPN, about captaincy and how he grew into the job for Sri Lanka.Jayawardene captained Sri Lanka in 38 Tests (won 18, lost 12), 126 ODIs (won 68, lost 49) and 19 T20Is (won 12, lost 6) between 2004 and 2013. Under his leadership, they made the finals of the 2007 World Cup and the 2012 World T20.During his tenure as captain, Jayawardene said he took pains to understand the players under his charge. I thing its about man management for me number one, because the team will trust you more than a coach or anyone else, he said. You need to understand the characters in the team and allow them to showcase what theyve got, give them that freedom but in a manner that, you know, you dont treat each and every individual differently because there should be a set of rules to guide all these people.But at the same time, they have that little bit of freedom to express themselves and to understand who they are, I mean the background, the family backgrounds, what triggers them, how do they react to situations and how can you get the best out of them.Jayawardene felt that a good way to build a rapport with the players was to be a friend rather than a captain at the top giving orders.I realised I could get the best out of the guys a different way, where Id be their friend and then allow them to be leaders in their own right, allow them to make decisions and back those decisions, and tell them that theyve done a good job. Even when they make mistakes we sit down and have a discussion … and they would like to know that from you rather than someone else or a selector or a coach.Jayawardenes career overlapped with that of his close friend Kumar Sangakkara, who captained Sri Lanka in 82 matches across formats between 2009 and 2012. He was a senior player while Jayawardene was captain and vice versa, and Jayawardene said their personal equation had not interfered with team dynamics.When Kumar was captain, I would always question certain decisions he made and when I was captain he would do the same, Jayawardene said. You need that kind of friend and those kind of people in your team. I allowed people to ask questions because thats when I would make better decisions as a captain. I allowed the younger members of the team to ask questions because they might have a brilliant idea and if you shut them down, you will never know that.So my theory on teamwork is everyone talks and everyone has to contribute and I will pick things from them, and if nothing comes up then Ill take the decision but whatever the decision I take out there, its my decision, I take responsibility for that. It doesnt matter that it came from a different person, but its my decision once Ive made that call. So, Kumar was fantastic in the sense that we had very honest, opinionated discussions on certain matters and they were good for both of us.Watch ESPNcricinfo Talking Cricket with Mahela Jayawardene at 9.30 pm (IST) on July 22 (Friday) on SONY ESPN Mark Teixeira Jersey . MLS Commissioner Don Garber and Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez also will attend the session, which was announced Monday. The league has discussed placing its next two expansion teams in Miami and Atlanta. 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LOUIS -- St. Planning, spending and even some construction projects are already underway at Atlantic Coast Conference schools in preparation for the launch of the leagues dedicated television channel in three years.Not to mention the heated debate about whether future football schedules will include eight or nine conference games.With coaches and players set to kick off the 2016 season, some ACC schools have begun drawing up construction projects to either build or retrofit existing facilities with the space and equipment needed to produce programming for the ESPN-affiliated cable network when it starts in 2019.Well have to finalize some decisions fairly quickly, North Carolina assistant athletic director Ken Cleary said.And of course, the most valuable content for the channel will be live, compelling games.The programming content has restarted the debate among league coaches and administrators to either expand the ACC football schedule to nine games, or leave it at eight but require teams to also play two opponents from the other power conferences.It all figures to add up to big money for the league and its schools, though nobody will publicly predict how much. When asked if he had an estimate for how much money the network might mean for Clemson, AD Dan Radakovich said, Not one that I want to hang my hat on.The ACCs most recent tax documents, for the fiscal year that ended in June 2015, showed average payouts of $28.4 million to its 14 football-playing schools. The Southeastern Conference distributed about $31.2 million to each of its 14 schools that year while the Big Ten paid out about $32 million to each of its 14 members. Both of those leagues have their own widely successful networks.An online-only version of the channel is already up and running, though to the viewer, its essentially a rebranded ESPN3 picking up the non-revenue-producing sports and second-tier football and basketball games not broadcast by the primary ESPN networks.The big change comes when the cable channel finally launches, and preparing for that requires some serious financial investments by the schools. Cleary said a goal is for the schools to each eventually have their own control rooms, so those big production trucks mostly wouldnt be needed for TV broadcasts. The transformation has already begun at several schools:- North Carolina State is spending $6 million in part to turn a space inside its football headquarters -- including ex-coach Chuck Amatos old racquetball court -- into a broadcast and production center, complete with a studio and control rooms for producing gameday video and programming for the channel.- As part of its upgradess to Joel Coliseum, Wake Forest is building multiple control rooms so it wont need those production trucks. Custom Babe Ruth Jersey. - Florida State is adding two control rooms, to produce content for both the network and the new video scoreboard, and is looking to hire a full-time engineer.- Built into Dukes new five-story, 90,000-square-foot tower of luxury suites at the football stadium is room for production facilities for both the schools online Blue Devil Network and the ACCs. More than $10 million was spent on projects related to video production, including infrastructure, wiring, equipment and a video scoreboard that debuted last year, Duke deputy athletic director Mike Cragg said.Its better to do it all up front ... rather than coming back and retrofitting, Cragg said.- And projects at Clemson -- which spent $63.5 million to renovate Littlejohn Coliseum and $55 million on a new operations building for the football program -- were designed with a possible network in mind, with Radakovich saying tweaks to accommodate TV production were inserted into the plans.We might only have a quarter mile to go to get up to speed for the network, Radakovich said, while some other ACC schools might have to go the full mile.The football schedule also might have a different look, with the goal of giving viewers more reason to watch.Commissioner John Swofford said when announcing the network in July that the mens basketball schedule would eventually grow from 18 games to 20 in time for the networks launch in August 2019, as part of an effort to boost available content toward the goal of airing more than 1,300 events annually through its cable and digital channels.League ADs failed to reach a consensus during a conference call in August to discuss whether to tweak the scheduling requirements.Schools that play yearly rivalry games against SEC teams -- Georgia Tech, Clemson, Florida State, Louisville -- would prefer to keep it at eight because that would give them some flexibility and keep the ACC schedule balanced. Others prefer a nine-game ACC schedule, arguing there might not be enough nonconference opponents with openings to fill those schedules.Is everybody really going to be able to find two teams that want to play them? Wake Forest coach Dave Clawson said. What do you want, and whats real? I dont know if what you want is real.---AP Sports Writers Aaron Beard in Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Pete Iacobelli in Clemson, South Carolina; and Joe Reedy in Tallahassee, Florida, contributed to this report. ' ' '
