SVG Grammar School Head Coach Rawlson Morgan (far right) with athletes from the 4x100m and 4x400m teams
after Saturday’s event. Photo by Nelson A. King
Caribbean L 56 ife, May 3–9, 2019 BQ
conference last week at the Sandals
Royal Resort in Barbados.
Gayle will head the powerful
batting lineup, which will see the
return of fellow left-hander Evin
Lewis from injury, Kemar Roach
and Shannon Gabriel who will lead
the bowling attack in the preliminary
squad of the two-time champions
West Indies.
The 15-member squad, which
will be captained by Jason Holder,
includes nine players that will be
making their first appearance in the
global showpiece, including Shimron
Hetmyer, the captain of the West
Indies Under-19 side that won its
first ever ICC Youth World Cup three
years ago.
Russell last played an ODI for West
Indies in July 2018.
Commenting on the selection Haynes
said, “based on the new selection
policy approach which allowed us to
consider a number of players that
have not regularly appeared in the
side over the last years, we had a
wide base of talent from which to
choose.”
He said all the players named in
the Tri-Nation Series could, however,
stake a claim to be in the final
15-member squad that will be submitted
after the Tri-Nation Series
before the final deadline next month.
Gayle will be making a record
fifth World Cup appearance for West
Indies and needs just 253 runs to
overtake fellow left-hander batsman
Brian Lara and become the leading
batsman for the Caribbean side in
One Day Internationals.
Roach will be making his third
World Cup appearance while it would
be the first for Gabriel.
SQUAD:
Jason Holder (captain), Fabian
Allen, Carlos Braithwaite, Darren
Bravo, Sheldon Cottrell, Shannon
Gabriel, Chris Gayle, Shimron Hetmyer,
Shai Hope, Evin Lewis, Ashley
Nurse, Nicholas Pooran, Kemar
Roach, Andre Russell and Oshane
Thomas.
to interim head coach, Floyd Reifer,
who was recently announced in the
post and joins former Test fast bowler
Corey Collymore and ex-first class
pacer Rayon Griffith, as the support
staff.
Director of Cricket, Jimmy Adams
said Cricket West Indies (CWI) has, in
consultation with interim head coach
Floyd Reifer, assembled a strong support
group of coaches to work with
the squad for the Tri-Nations Series
against Ireland and Bangladesh, to
prepare for the World Cup.
“This support group will continue
throughout the ICC Cricket World
Cup in England,” he said.
Estwick got kudos from players
during his tenure as bowling coach
after replacing legendary former fast
bowler, Sir Curtly Ambrose, in May
2016 ahead of the Tri-Nations Series
in the Caribbean.
After he was fired, Estwick worked
as coach of the Windies Women’s
squad for the Twenty20 World Cup in
November last year
CWI has changed the entire coaching
staff for the upcoming World Cup
and has also brought back Collymore
after featuring as bowling coach on
the West Indies Men’s tour of India
and Bangladesh last year.
Collymore, 41, who played 30 Tests
and 84 ODIs for West Indies, will
resume his role as bowling coach
for the tour of Ireland and the World
Cup.
Guyanese Griffith, who served as
a coach with the Caribbean Premier
League (CPL) franchise Guyana Amazon
Warriors in the past, will now
undertake fielding coach duties.
Englishman Richard Pybus, controversially
appointed head coach
last January, has been removed along
with his support team of Vasbert
Drakes, Toby Radford and Eusan
Grandon.
at the top of their voices.
Roban had snatched the gold medal
in the 800m, in 1 min., 56 sec., in the
Under 17 Category, at last year’s CARIFTA
Games in the Bahamas.
Saturday’s win enabled the Grammar
School to achieve the 31st ranking
among 370 schools, which competed in
the 4x400m heats. Last year, the Grammar
School was ranked 47th overall in
the 4x400m.
In the 4x100m heat the day before,
the Grammar School team of Encozie
Rodgers, Jadyn Delpesche, Deron
Edwards and Malik Ferdinand, running
in that order, placed second by clocking
44.66 sec.
Head Coach Rawlson Morgan told
a reception Saturday night — at the
Vincentian-owned Calabash Restaurant
and Lounge, on Lancaster Avenue in
Philadelphia — that his team was ahead
in the first three legs in the 4x100m
but was hampered by a “glitch” in the
anchor leg.
“It took one glitch,” he said. “But
stuff happens.”
Later, Morgan told Caribbean Life, in
an exclusive interview, that the Grammar
School’s performance was remarkable.
“Overall, I’m very pleased,” he said.
“I couldn’t ask for more. It’s our very
first plaque in the three years that we’ve
come here.”
Earlier, at the reception, Morgan
noted the “fast turn-over” rate of athletes
at the Grammar school, stating
that only two athletes from last year’s
contingent competed this year.
He thanked the Vincentian-born,
Philadelphia-based Penn Relays pioneer
and coordinator James Cordice;
the Brooklyn-based Council of St. Vincent
and the Grenadines Organizations,
U.S.A., Inc. (COSAGO); and Vincentian
families — the Howells in Philadelphia
and the Fridays in Brooklyn — for facilitating
the team’s journey in the US.
But Morgan added that it is an arduous
task in raising funds at home to
compete in the Penn Relays.
“It’s not an easy task to come to
Penn (Penn Relays),” he said. “It took
the efforts of the PTA (Parent-Teachers
Association at the Grammar School)
and your contributions to be at the
Penn Relays,” he told the reception.
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Barbadian coach Roddy Estwick.
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Estwick re-appointed coach
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