da doce： West Indies coach Roger Harper has a need a need for speed
da esport bet： Barry Alleyne25-Dec-2001West Indies coach Roger Harper has a need a need for speed.The former West Indies off-spinner turned coach isn’t apolitician, but he’s on a serious campaign to findlegitimate pacers to replace Curtly Ambrose and CourtneyWalsh, and also return the regional side to cricket’sheights through fiery fast bowling.Harper noted the Windies’ lack of firepower was conspicuouson the just concluded tour of Sri Lanka, where they lost twoTests despite some big scores and eventually succumbed 3-0.We could have done much better in the Tests with the kind ofpositions we reached when we batted. But it clearly provesagain that bowlers win Test matches, Harper told the DailyNation on Saturday, after he and manager Ricky Skerrittarrived in Barbados, en route to Guyana and St Kitts,respectively.We didn’t bowl well at all in the Tests, and allowed SriLanka to take control with their batting, he added.Harper denied that tour officials spent too much timeconcentrating on Sri Lanka’s world-class spinner MuttiahMuralitharan and pacer Chaminda Vaas.We knew their play would have been key to the series, but westill tried to work on other areas, the coach said.He noted that all West Indies batsmen have to seriouslyimprove the way they play the moving ball, and not justreverse spin.When you play Test cricket, spin is spin. We just have toprepare better for the moving ball, but that remains toughbecause we are not known for producing swing bowlers.It will be a very difficult thing to simulate, so we have atough time ahead of us.Serious campaignBut according to Harper, it’s not just finding qualityexpress pacers and improving the batsmen’s ability to playagainst quality spinners that will save West Indies cricket.We have to look at each area and work at the entiredevelopment of West Indies cricket.The Busta tournament should be the place where we fine-tunesuch development, but the standard there needs to be higher,the former West Indies vice-captain noted.But the first thing we have to do is start a seriouscampaign in looking for bowlers.We have to find players with the right build andathleticism, then harness that into the rudiments of fastbowling.Skerritt also bemoaned the lack of stability in the team’sbowling line-up since the retirement of Walsh and Ambrose.There’s been no stability at all. We’ve used 17 or 18bowlers in the last 18 months for whatever reasons, so noplayers have been able to constantly keep their place and bein a position to improve gradually, he said.
