T&T Comments on the Dyson Appointment

Taken from www.trinidadexpress.com:

Former West Indies batsman and selector Joey Carew said he was not against a foreign coach, once he has get the job done. “I know little of the man but what I can say is that I am going to be very happy, if he can get results. If he has been given the job, it means that he has some credentials and we hope that he can inflame our cricketers to be more national minded.

“In this aspect, I would hope that probably among his management team would be a West Indian who can help in this aspect.”

Former Test off-spinner Rangy Nanan said he would have loved to see a local coach given the job but questioned whether the players would have given him the required respect. “I would have loved to see a local coach but I don’t know whether the players would have given him that respect that they might give the foreign coach.”

Successful cricket coach Anthony Gray said the WICB has to give locals the chance to get experience and stop looking outside. “We continue to be too dependent on foreign people and we are not educating our own. Bennett King and David Moore both failed because they came from a different culture and now we go back to another Australian.”

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the T&T Cricket Board (TTCB), Forbes Persaud said he was not in favour of a foreign coach because he thinks a regional past player can be better equipped for the job. “I don’t particularly like the move, I would have rather one of our own. The problem in our cricket today is an attitudinal one and I think that a foreign coach would have difficulty in having an impact on this.”