The former South African star is getting acquainted to the paces of Australia’s Big Bash League at the moment where his team, Hobart Hurricanes, has done well so far, winning four of the six matches played. Coming from the post of South Africa’s head coach, where he was at the helm for three years, Kirsten believes that he can still add value to a domestic league side, where the campaign is as short as three months.

"If you take Major League Baseball, if you take NFL, if you take basketball around the world, if you take football around the world, you just have to look at the role of the coach or manager within those sports. They play a fairly significant role. I think cricket's moving in that direction, in T20 cricket."

“There is some information that's becoming compelling, in my view. The question is how you decode the information to build it into your team strategy. I think coaches and teams are getting really good at that. The other thing is that, as long as the information is compelling, you can run with it… Test cricket unfolds in a different way… players, coaches and experts will always default to what those patterns and trends have been. It hasn't really changed over many, many years. You do get some great teams that have tried to shift it a little bit, but it's kind of pretty much stayed fairly stable for a long period of time,” Kirsten said.

Kirsten has recently been appointed as the batting mentor of Royal Challenger Bangalore, which would go through a major reshuffle in the upcoming mega-auction. Though Daniel Vettori is the head coach, whom Ashish Nehra (bowling mentor) and Kirsten will report to, the former Indian coach believes that a mentor can hardly bring technical changes in a short tournament in this format.