The Independent Voice of West Indies Cricket
West Indies coaching manager Darren Holder has suddenly resigned the post, just days after returning belatedly from vacation in his native Australia.
Holder's resignation is effective immediately. He is scheduled to return to Australia to deal with what is being described as "a recent significant change in the circumstances surrounding his personal life."
Last April, when the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) hired Darren Holder to be its first Coaching Manager, we were told that the hotshot Aussie would be setting up systems to make our coaches better.
At the time of his appointment, WICB CEO Roger Brathwaite made it clear that Holder's role "will be critical to the development of the game and the young players in particular in the West Indies."
Even now, selectors, players and fans are talking about four pronged pace attacks. But there are not four good fast bowlers in the West Indies. In olden days, teams were balanced.
That usually meant two fast bowlers, a medium pacer who was usually the allrounder and two spin bowlers, five specialist batsmen and the wicketkeeper.
The last two weeks has been a further eye opener, a very concerned eye, that is, as to our desperate need for good young sportsmen, in every discipline, not only in Trinidad & Tobago, but around the Caribbean region.
Many players are participating in every sport, but less than 25 percent of the players now involved are names new to each of the respective sports.
He's from the island of Nevis ? part of a twin-island federation in the north of the Eastern Caribbean island chain. His name might not be as well known as his compatriot Keith Arthurton, but Derrick Parry is carrying out an important function.
Parry sits alongside Clyde Butts and Ezra Moseley as a selector at the junior level of West Indies cricket. It is his panel that has been responsible for selecting the runner-up team for the Youth World Cup in Bangladesh, many of whose members have gone on to make their debuts in regional cricket competitions.