5 great players who coached teams outside their country 

#2 Andy Flower

Andy Flower

After his international career as one of Zimbabwe's finest batsman ended soon after the 2003 World Cup, due to his stand against the country's President Robert Mugabe, Andy Flower soon turned to coaching. Having already played Country Cricket in England, Flower was appointed as the England cricket team's assistant coach in 2007 and two years later he became the head coach. He had no previous coaching experience. Although the enduring legacy of around 5 years of Flower's reign will be the 2013-14 Ashes in Australia in which England were humiliated 5-0, it should not be forgotten that he was also responsible for the team's rapid rise and the climb to the top of the ICC Test rankings. In that period, England won three Ashes series, including the 3-1 win Down Under in 2010-11 and the 2010 World T20 in the West Indies. The Ashes series win in Australia was perhaps Flower's finest hour. As far as sporting success is concerned, very few coaches, leave alone former greats, have gone on to achieve such success as an overseas coach.