PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Legendary West Indies quick bowler Sir Andy Roberts doesn’t imagine the appointment of Daren Sammy as head coach of the Check group will lead to speedy success for the regional facet.
On Monday, throughout Cricket West Indies (CWI) quarterly press convention in St Vincent, Director of Cricket Miles Bascombe revealed that Sammy, the white-ball head coach, would take over from the present head coach of the Check facet, Andre Coley, efficient April 1, 2025.
Sammy’s promotion adopted spectacular outcomes. Throughout his 18 months in cost, he led the T20 group to victories in 20 of their 35 matches, whereas the ODI facet gained 15 of its 28 matches.
Nonetheless, talking on Trinidadian radio station i95.5FM on Thursday, the 73-year-old, who took 202 Check wickets in simply 42 matches, stated the gamers wanted to alter their mindsets if the West Indies was to return to its glory days.
“Daren Sammy is cherished by Cricket West Indies, particularly on this administration.
“I don’t see any coach making a distinction till the gamers should purchase into the idea of what made West Indies cricket nice up to now,” Sir Andy stated.
“Exhausting work, dedication, the love for the sport, rethink your recreation since you can not enable coaches to suppose for you as a result of that appears to be the norm in West Indies cricket.
“The whole lot a coach tells them, they appear to suppose it’s gospel. It’s a must to work issues out for your self as a result of what is nice for me will not be good for you, so you must know what is nice for your self, and you’ve got to have the ability to analyze your recreation on the day as a result of every single day you get up, you gained’t really feel the identical,” he added.
Sir Andy lamented that West Indies cricket was nonetheless being run the identical method regardless of being rooted to the underside of the Check rankings for many years.
“When you test West Indies cricket, in the course of the years that we have now been within the doldrums and in the present day we’re nonetheless within the doldrums, however our strategies keep the identical because it was 15, 20 years in the past, and it’s not a way that’s related to West Indies’ greatness,” Sir Andy maintained.
“We live up to now so far as Australia, England, India and all of them. They’re instructing us easy methods to play cricket now, and we’re those they observe. Now we’re the followers.”
