The Independent Voice of West Indies Cricket
When Bennett King takes up the post as West Indies head coach in mid-November, he will have a familiar face as his full-time assistant: Australian academy senior coach David Moore.
Moore, who was in charge of using technology to provide specialist feedback to players at Australia's Centre of Excellence, will be King's deputy on the West Indies team under a new team structure that gives sweeping powers to the head coach.
Daren Ganga's injury-riddled Trinidad & Tobago are the 2004 regional one day champions.
Led by man-of-the-match Richard Kelly and level-headed batting by Imran Jan, the undermanned Trinidad & Tobago completed a four-wicket win over defending champions Guyana to lift the President's Cup at Kensington Oval in Barbados.
The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) late Saturday confirmed the appointment of Australian Bennett King as head coach of the senior team and announced that legendary all-rounder Sir Garfield Sobers will join the West Indies coaching staff as technical consultant.
Tony Howard retains his job as team manager under the new management structure unveiled earlier this year. WICB chief executive Roger Brathwaite said few more appointments, possibly an assistant coach, would be made shortly.
Brilliant all round cricket from man-of-the-match Lennox Cush and Narsingh Deonarine led Guyana to an eight-wicket win over the Windward Islands and a place in the finals of this year's unsponsored West Indies one-day competition.
Cush took 3-21 to limit the Windwards to 174 for nine off 50 overs and returned with the bat to stroke a responsible unbeaten 61 as Guyana coasted to 175 for 2 with overs to spare.
Half-centuries from the Ganga brothers and a valuable unbeaten 47 by Ricardo Powell sparked underdogs Trinidad & Tobago to an 11-run victory over Barbados in the first semi final of this year's unsponsored West Indies one-day competition.
Sherwin Ganga (66) teamed up with captain Daren Ganga (50) to lead Trinidad & Tobago's chase of a target of 276 set by the pre-tournament favourites. When bad light stopped play and forced the implementation of the Duckworth/Lewis system, Trinidad were declared victors at 256 for five (46.2 overs).