West Indies coach Daren Sammy forward of the fifth T20 Worldwide between the West Indies and England at Daren Sammy Nationwide Cricket Stadium on Nov. 17, 2024 in Gros Islet, Saint Lucia.
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Cricket West Indies (CWI) director Miles Bascombe believes it’s too early to guage West Indies head coach Daren Sammy primarily based on the regional facet’s efficiency in just one Take a look at sequence.
The West Indies have been crushed 3-0 by Australia in Sammy’s first sequence answerable for the Take a look at workforce in July. They have been dismantled for a paltry 27 within the second innings of the third Take a look at match—the second lowest rating in Take a look at historical past.
They have been additionally defeated 5-0 by the identical opponents within the following T20I sequence and 2-1 by Pakistan within the lately concluded T20I sequence in Florida.
There have been widespread requires Sammy to be fired by a number of individuals, together with former West Indies gamers, however Bascombe mentioned Sammy had not been given sufficient of a possibility to show his value.
Nonetheless, talking throughout a press convention following the conclusion of a two-day emergency assembly to handle essential challenges going through West Indies cricket, he identified that Sammy can be anticipated to supply higher outcomes sooner or later.
“The underlying cause in [hiring Sammy] was that we felt Daren had been capable of articulate a transparent plan, and we noticed him do this within the white-ball format, and we just about wished the identical sort of strategy in the direction of Take a look at 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, we have now 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 kind 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 Take a look at 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 count on that performances will probably be higher,” he added.
Bascombe denied options that Sammy’s hiring had been a cost-cutting measure for CWI.
“I may undoubtedly say that there is no such thing as a actual important 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 instances he wouldn’t be accessible himself as a result of he can be on tour and so we might nonetheless want to usher in different help workers, which might come at a value, so there was undoubtedly no form of monetary consideration when it comes to merging the roles,” Bascombe mentioned.
