Bascombe: Coaching education system being revamped

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC):

Director of Cricket at Cricket West Indies (CWI), Miles Bascombe, has admitted that the region is not generating enough high-level coaches, and that plans are afoot to restructure its coaching education system.

Speaking during a press conference on Monday following the conclusion of a two-day emergency meeting, Bascombe said CWI had hired a consultant to help address the issue as a short-term fix.

However, he revealed that a complete revamp of the coaching education system was in the works.

“So our coaching education system is probably one of the things from very early. I recognised that we were not producing the level of coaches that we would want to ideally, based on the certification programme.

“We have now employed a coaching development consultant who works directly with our franchise coaches and this is a bit of a stop gap measure as we look to revamp our coaching education system,” Bascombe said.

“The game has moved on and our coaching education system needs to move on along with that, so coaches now need to understand a lot of the technology that is integrated into the game and they need to be able to use that to assist their players.

“So, what we want to do is to redevelop our coaching education system so that it is more modern and more current and that process has started already. We actually have a meeting on Thursday with a working group that is intended to relook at the entire coaching education system, the coaching certification system and bring it in line with what is more modern and current,” he added.