Otis Gibson names as new WINDIES head coach

[southend4ever]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/cricket/england/8492675.stm

Obviously since Otis has been bowling coach which coincides with Strauss and Flower, England's test record has improved.

Good look to the guy to go and take more responsibility for his home country. I am sure there are some quality bowling coaches around but who will get the job?

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

I don't think Gibson did that amazing a job as England bowling coach. Obviously he had limited talent to work with, and was hamstrung by England often only fielding 3 seamers, but England continued to struggle to take 20 wickets.

For the West Indies though he comes with a couple of distinct advantages. He's in a handy position of being both a West Indian (can't remember what island) and an outsider. That means he can come in with a fresh set of eyes, free from the baggage of having coached an island. As seemingly the only candidate for the job he can name his own price - he can either have used this to drive up his salary or better still to demand complete control over the system. Finally, he has been in a professional international set up for the last year or two now, and he can bring that experience to the West Indies, whose organisation has been a shambles.

I wish him well. World cricket is better with a strong West Indies.

 

[canveyshrimper]

I've just seen that, I think he's from Barbados and played a few tests & ODI's in the 90's. I think he did a reasonable job with what he had to work with in the England job. Good luck to him, I wonder now if England will try to get Allan Donald again.

Also I totally agree about world cricket needing a strong (or at worst competitive) WIndies team.

 

[Ailsa Road Shrimper]

He has some potential in players such as Taylor, Edwards and Roach to work with for the Windies so it will be interesting to see how he does