Dyson sacked

[Mercules]

West Indies cricket lurches from one precipitous state to another, with the news that the board (WICB) has sacked the coach, John Dyson, ahead of the forthcoming Champions Trophy.

He departs after the recent Test and one-day series defeats against Bangladesh. West Indies fielded a severely weakened team after a dispute between the WICB and the West Indies Players' Association (WIPA) over contracts led the withdrawal of all the leading players.

Dyson will be temporarily replaced by David Williams, the assistant coach, who has been in his role with the side since 2007. Williams has never hid his ambition to become the full-time national coach, and expressed his dissatisfaction in the appointment of Dyson, from Australia, rather than opting for a West Indian.

Dyson sacked as West Indies coach | West Indies Cricket News | Cricinfo.com


Somewhat out of the blue as far as I'm aware. Maybe the WICB are just trying to look for a scapegoat over the WIPA affair/Bangladesh loss. Minus the D/L error he looked competent during England's tour.

 

[RoboRocks]

Dyson sacked as West Indies coach | West Indies Cricket News | Cricinfo.com


Somewhat out of the blue as far as I'm aware. Maybe the WICB are just trying to look for a scapegoat over the WIPA affair/Bangladesh loss. Minus the D/L error he looked competent during Endland's tour.

It certainly was the end of the WI's form.

It's certainly not his fault. He was dealing with player who are not of international standard during the Bangladesh series and can't be blamed for WI's failings. It's been nothing new in the West Indies during the last 10 years.

 

[Howsie]

What a shambles. He has actually been a really good coach over the last few years, it surely can't be because of the loss to Bangladesh.

 

[aussie1st]

No reason given for his sacking either, for mind he did the best job he could with the players he had available.

 

[King Cricket]

They are being extremely unfair on Dyson. No bloody coach in this planet could have made that West Indian D team win the test/ODI series against Bangladesh. Even a second division CAB team would have beaten that side with utmost ease. Still, the guy tried his best, and almost had the first test in his pocket. What can the coach do if the selectors throw in front of him a ████ team with 11 rubbish players? If you want that sort of a team to clinch a series, you are asking too much from the coach. And it's not the coach who goes out there and plays the games, it's the players. So, yeah, that logic doesn't stand. Again, if I look at Dyson's past records, he has actually done pretty well. Bottling a formidable English test outfit earlier this year, reaching the semis of the T-20 World Cup, beating South Africa at Port Elizabeth when he first took over (which was actually their first test test victory since May 2005); not bad records at all, taking into account that the West Indian team is still undergoing developments. The West Indian team is not in the same class as Australia or South Africa, and what Dyson did with limited resources is quite enviable. He gave the team a new life! Countless promising youngesters have made their appearences under him, and some have now turned to fine cricketers. It's a pity the WICB didn't realize it! Had Dyson stayed, none but the WICB would have been the gainer.

 

[sohum]

The West Indies Cricket Board appears to be one of the most unprofessional cricket boards out there, possibly just better than Zimbabwe. This seems like a poor attempt by the board to deflect criticism of their failure to resolve the players dispute before the Bangladesh series.

 

[khalek]

He must be a relieved man to get out the shite West Indies cricket system.

 

[Owzat]

The West Indies board needs to look long and hard at itself, I can't believe what the players are demanding is so unreasonable. That said they've hardly been up with the best five or six in the world in recent years, but without those players a loss to Bangladesh was always possible. No matter what, that is in the record books and the people of the windies have to live with it like we have to live with embarrassing defeats of our past (like losing to they yanks at "'soccer" )

Maybe a new coach isn't the worst thing, a new perspective and some new faces rather than the run of the mill averages picking up caps for looking well ordinary

MN Samuels : 29 Tests, 1408 runs @ 28.73
DS Smith : 31 Tests, 1315 runs @ 24.81
D Ganga : 48 Tests, 2160 runs @ 25.71
DJJ Bravo : 31 Tests, 70 wkts @ 39.59
FH Edwards : 43 Tests, 122 wkts @ 39.43
DB Powell : 37 Tests, 85 wkts @ 48.20

I'll let Jerome Taylor off as 35.56 average isn't THAT bad, but it certainly isn't THAT good either. They might be good enough to get in the Bangladesh team some/most of those, but frankly the windies won't beat many better sides until some raw talent is uncovered and nurtured. The windies board are hardly selling cricket to the young kids who might take it up with all the disputes and that embarrassing humiliation. One has to assume the aim of the windies board is to rebuild and get the windies back up where they once were, not to make themselves a laughing stock.

So with that aim in mind you have to wonder whether this sacking is going to move them forward or backwards

 

[sohum]

I think the West Indies has a decent team going if they play at full strength. They've got a pretty good pace attack (although pretty raw) and a solid batting line-up that features the likes of Gayle, Chanderpaul and Sarwan. I'd say in terms of other countries, they are probably as good as New Zealand or Pakistan, on average.

Going from middle of the table to bottom of the table (losing to Bangladesh) is what they've achieved over the last month or so by ignoring their best players.