Chris Rogers has the character Cricket Australia might be looking for but limited coaching experience

If the decision makers at Cricket Australia are true to their word of seeking a clean break from the machismo and aggressive demeanour of past iterations of the national team, they could make no greater statement to that effect than employing Rogers. They have already put some faith in his expertise. Rogers has recently been installed as a high-performance coach, geared towards youth development and long-term planning. A lack of coaching experience makes his candidacy a long shot on the scale of a Glenn Maxwell straight six, however. Only in the past two years has he started on what many see as a natural path towards top-level coaching, with work undertaken with English county championship sides Gloucestershire and Somerset. Rogers' greatest assets are his character and evidently expansive cricketing brain. Only becoming a permanent fixture in the national team late in his playing career, he was always a man apart from the boys' club of an in-your-face squad.A quiet, considered, educated man, he was ? and is ? well-liked, and respected for making the most of his talent and opportunity when it finally came.Australian cricket would be foolish to let his cricket knowledge be employed in the commentary box more than the training paddock. Though one for the future more likely than the present.But with Australia looking for a new way forward, handing the reins to a man of old-school values of respect and honest hard work might be seductive to some.