Bracewell gets two more years

[Days of Grace]

Be hard for Worrell to coach the Windies in the 1980s. Bit like 'Weekend at Bernies' really.

 

[Richard]

I thought the Windies had a coach during the 80's. Someone like Frank Worrell?

No - a manager, perhaps (not Worrell, though, he died in 1963) but West Indies didn't have a coach as such until, IIRR, Vivian Richards in the mid-1990s.

Anyway, counties had coaches back then didn't they?

Sort of. There have been figures called coaches in domestic cricket since the 1900s, but their role was not really comparable to what it is today until the 1990s.

I thought NZ took on a coach in the mid 80's. Turner has coached NZ on two occasions; the first time being in the 80's I think. Warren Lees was coach around 1990.

No, Australia and England were the first to appoint a coach, in 1986. Turner may have been shortly after that, so late 1980s at the absolute earliest.

 

[Flem274*]

So basically the best test teams in the world have good players?

Every top 8 team has good players. I was looking at the structure of the batting and what the bowlers generally did e.g. full on attack, support, reliable etc .

 

[Will Scarlet]

Be hard for Worrell to coach the Windies in the 1980s. Bit like 'Weekend at Bernies' really.

Which is why I said, "someone like Frank Worrel". Essentially I meant a WI legend. Hasn't Clive Lloyd coached the Windies at some stage?

 

[Richard]

Yes, in 1999.