Simmons wants support for new measures

Fri, Aug 26, '16

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad : CMC-Frustrated West Indies head coach Phil Simmons says he has not been successful in getting a number of new measures implemented to help improve the performance of the regional squad.

Simmons made his revelation during a news conference following the West Indies 2-0 defeat in the four-Test series against India. The former Windies allrounder, head coach for a little over a year, says he has requested that a meeting of regional coaches be held about three times a year to review training modules, improvement in practice facilities and at least three competitive matches for the West Indies A team each year.

“There are a lot of things that I have asked for but it’s not coming to fruition. I have asked for coaches to meet twice maybe three times a year and discuss cricket,” Simmons disclosed.

“We need to make sure that whatever we are doing upstairs is going down to everybody.

You and I might be two coaches and we coach differently but the same objective we need to have. If we don’t have the same objective then we are spinning top in mud”.