debut: 11/13/02
64,547 runs
by name and nature
This shows that the CWI president is living up to his name…
If you want to enlist “legends” - send them into the schools…this is just a brazen attempt to deflect and distract
Jeff Dujon is spot on
This shows that the CWI president is living up to his name…
If you want to enlist “legends” - send them into the schools…this is just a brazen attempt to deflect and distract
Jeff Dujon is spot on
The Test series was the first under head coach Daren Sammy, who was given the nod as all-format coach by Cricket West Indies last December after his relative success with the white-ball teams.
However, Dujon doesn’t think the St Lucian will change the fortunes of the team’s red-ball struggles.
“I don’t believe that Daren Sammy — and I have nothing against him personally — is the man for the job. To be the coach of all three formats and what appears to be the only selector, that’s a lot for someone with a lack of experience to take on. I don’t think we’re going to go anywhere where that is concerned, and a lot has to change,” he said.
CWI President Dr Kishore Shallow announced that an emergency meeting will be convened to review the series, and has invited former captains Sir Clive Lloyd, Sir Vivian Richards and Brian Lara to be part of it.
Dujon, though, isn’t expecting anything special to come from the meeting.
“That’s not going to change anything. If I was one of them [Lloyd, Richards or Lara], I wouldn’t be running to go in there because that’s only including me in the embarrassment because, trust me, the solution doesn’t lie there. That’s a smokescreen [to] take some pressure off [the team],” Dujon said.
“All the pontificating, the explanations, and the proposed this and that isn’t going to solve the problem. We’re suffering from the fact that we’ve not developed our cricket along on the right lines and this is where we’ve ended up. We’ve reached a point where we can’t compete with the best teams.”
However, Dujon doesn’t think the St Lucian will change the fortunes of the team’s red-ball struggles.
“I don’t believe that Daren Sammy — and I have nothing against him personally — is the man for the job. To be the coach of all three formats and what appears to be the only selector, that’s a lot for someone with a lack of experience to take on. I don’t think we’re going to go anywhere where that is concerned, and a lot has to change,” he said.
CWI President Dr Kishore Shallow announced that an emergency meeting will be convened to review the series, and has invited former captains Sir Clive Lloyd, Sir Vivian Richards and Brian Lara to be part of it.
Dujon, though, isn’t expecting anything special to come from the meeting.
“That’s not going to change anything. If I was one of them [Lloyd, Richards or Lara], I wouldn’t be running to go in there because that’s only including me in the embarrassment because, trust me, the solution doesn’t lie there. That’s a smokescreen [to] take some pressure off [the team],” Dujon said.
“All the pontificating, the explanations, and the proposed this and that isn’t going to solve the problem. We’re suffering from the fact that we’ve not developed our cricket along on the right lines and this is where we’ve ended up. We’ve reached a point where we can’t compete with the best teams.”
- edited -
