PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Director of Cricket at Cricket West Indies, Miles Bascombe, believes it’s too early to guage West Indies all-format head coach Daren Sammy based mostly on the efficiency of the regional facet in a single Check sequence.
The West Indies had been trounced 3-0 by Australia in Sammy’s first sequence in command of the Check workforce in July, which included them being skittled out for a paltry 27 – the second lowest rating in Check historical past – within the second innings of the third Check match.
They had been additionally defeated 5-0 by the identical opponents within the following T20I sequence and 2-1 by Pakistan within the just-concluded T20I sequence in Florida. They’re at the moment tied 1-1 within the ongoing ODI sequence towards Pakistan, with the ultimate match scheduled to be performed on Tuesday.
Regardless of these outcomes and widespread requires Sammy to be fired from a number of quarters, together with former West Indies gamers, Bascombe stated Sammy had not been given sufficient of a chance to show his price.
Nonetheless, talking throughout a press convention on Monday following the conclusion of a two-day emergency assembly to handle crucial challenges dealing with West Indies cricket, he identified that Sammy could be anticipated to provide higher outcomes sooner or later.
“The underlying motive in [hiring Sammy] was that we felt Daren had been capable of articulate a transparent plan, and we noticed him try this within the white-ball format, and we just about wished the identical sort of strategy in the direction of Check cricket.
“He’s nonetheless just one sequence into his tenure as all-format coach, and whereas the 27 is perhaps the spotlight or lowlight of that first sequence, now we have to confess that we noticed some substantial enchancment when it comes to our bowling unit,” Bascombe maintained.
“We noticed even a Brandon King, who’s a type of gamers that some individuals may need pigeonholed as a white-ball participant, we noticed that he was capable of present that he was up for the problem of Check cricket.
“As Daren goes on, as we begin to put a number of the strategic initiatives in place to assist the workforce put together and assist the gamers to develop their potential, we anticipate that performances will probably be higher,” he added.
Bascombe disputed options that Sammy’s hiring had been a cost-cutting measure for CWI.
“I might say that there is no such thing as a actual vital financial savings when it comes to having Daren as an all-format coach as a result of we might nonetheless want extra help for him.
“So we might nonetheless must have camps, many occasions he wouldn’t be out there himself as a result of he could be on tour, and so we might nonetheless want to usher in different help workers, which might come at a value, so there was no type of monetary consideration when it comes to merging the roles,” Bascombe stated.
