Carl Hooper named amongst West Indies’ white-ball assistant coaches
Former West Indies captains Carl Hooper and Floyd Reifer have been appointed as assistants to new white-ball head coach Daren Sammy forward of West Indies’ three-match ODI collection towards UAE and the World Cup Qualifier in Zimbabwe. Former New Zealand allrounder James Franklin has additionally joined the workers as an assistant coach.
Hooper, who performed 102 Tests and 227 ODIs, has labored at numerous ranges of teaching within the Caribbean and Australia, the place he’s now settled. He was assistant coach of Adelaide Strikers within the Big Bash League (BBL) in the course of the 2022-23 Australian summer season, and has beforehand labored with Antigua Hawksbills and Guyana Amazon Warriors within the Caribbean Premier League (CPL). He has additionally served as a mentor on the West Indies High-Performance Centre in Barbados.
“When I was initially approached by Daren about the potential opportunity, I immediately confirmed my interest, as I really want to help with the challenge and make a meaningful impact,” Hooper mentioned. “I firmly believe that it is time for West Indies Cricket to ascend, and I am confident in my ability, knowledge, and experience to aid in this endeavour.”
Reifer, who performed six Tests, eight ODIs and one T20I, has additionally served as West Indies’ interim head coach in the course of the 2019 World Cup. He has held teaching roles with the West Indies A crew and the senior males’s aspect, and was head coach of the lads’s Under-19 crew in 2021 and Jamaica Tallawahs within the CPL.
Franklin, an allrounder who performed 31 Tests, 110 ODIs and 38 T20Is for New Zealand, has served stints as head coach of the English county aspect Durham, assistant coach at Birmingham Phoenix within the Men’s Hundred, and fielding coach at MI Emirates within the ILT20.
Meanwhile, former West Indies gamers Kenny Benjamin and Stuart Williams and the previous Guyana quick bowler Rayon Griffith will likely be assistant coaches working alongside Test-match head coach Andre Coley. Benjamin and Griffith had been a part of the teaching workers for the excursions of Zimbabwe and South Africa earlier this yr, whereas Williams had beforehand labored as an assistant coach on numerous excursions.
CWI have mentioned all new assistant coaches have been appointed on a short-term foundation and will likely be “reviewed after the India series in August 2023”.
West Indies are presently in Sharjah for the three-match ODI collection towards UAE, which is scheduled to start on June 4, as they construct up in the direction of the World Cup Qualifier in Zimbabwe.
For the ten-team Qualifier, West Indies have been drawn in Group A, which additionally consists of Netherlands, Nepal, Zimbabwe and USA, towards whom they kick off their marketing campaign on June 18.