Pace legend Andy Roberts says a lot of the modifications have been a waste of money and time. ”I believe we’re losing a complete lot of {dollars} on using coaches and our cricket nonetheless hasn’t moved an inch upwards. If it moved wherever, it’s downwards,” he informed Jamaica Observer.

“That’s exactly what they’re doing,” Roberts replied when requested if coaches had been used as a scapegoatbad outcomes. “They have somebody responsible, they’re blaming the coaches. How come we didn’t make 5 modifications for the one-day worldwide (ODI) workforce? We misplaced 2-0 in Australia; how come we didn’t make 5 modifications to the Test workforce?

“My emphasis doesn’t depend on coaching. It depends on the players shouldering the responsibility to develop their game to the point that all the coach has to do is to make sure they go through their drills.”

Roberts feels many gamers lack an understanding of the basics of cricket. He says, though a coach of the senior workforce could also be necessary for executing day by day coaching drills, coaches are wanted to show the basics on the grass-roots stage.

“We have to get this right and try to develop our players from Under-15s up to the senior level,” he mentioned. “They are the ones who have to get it right. That is where you need your best coaches, not at the Test match level. At that level, you need somebody who can plan the game, who has an eye for the game and I don’t think that we have too many students of the game playing today.”

“I’m not going to blame the captain, you know,” he mentioned. “You could make as correct a decision as you possibly can as the captain, but if you don’t have the players to carry out the instruction, how are you going to succeed? So, the emphasis should start on developing the players. Not coaches.”

He in contrast along with his time as a participant. “All of us were coaches,” Roberts mentioned. “I can remember many times Deryck Murray, the wicketkeeper, would come to me and tell me, ‘listen, you’re falling away too much’. “That’s what you needed from somebody who knows you, can analyse your game, and come and tell you. You don’t want them telling you two days later. You want them telling you in the heat of the moment so that you have time in which to try to correct it.”

Coley’s first match as West Indies coach begins on February 28, of their first of two Tests in opposition to South Africa.