Sir Curtly Ambrose says he expects to see fresh faces in the next West Indies T20 side but still be under the same leadership.
Ambrose made these remarks on Barbados radio programme, Mason and Guest, on Tuesday night where he spoke about the disastrous T20 World Cup campaign while looking toward the future.
“I expect to see some changes in terms of the players because if we are looking to build for the next T20 World Cup which is just a year away which isn’t much time, we need to start doing a bit of building now so I expect to see some new faces, some fresh faces in the next T20 team going forward. Some of these guys that went to the World Cup I don’t think we will see some of them,” the former fast bowler opined.
He pointed out that incumbent skipper, Kieron Pollard, is still a good leader and that it would be illogical to make a clean sweep of the management unit at this point.
“The thing about it, we tend to look at other nations when the coaches are not performing, whether it’s football, basketball or whatever, you find that coaches are being replaced [and] you are asking if I would replace Simmons and Estwick. I would not at the moment, I would keep them on. We have to understand, yes the results over the last couple years may not be flattering but you don’t want to sweep clean, that could be dangerous,” he offered.
While former Cricket West Indies president, Dave Cameron has suggested that Shimron Hetmyer should be made the new white-ball captain, Ambrose shared a different view, highlighting that the Guyanese needs to sort out his game first but could be a future leader.
“Hetmyer is a young man yes, he could be a future captain in the making, but I think Hetmyer needs to get his game in order first. He needs to get in order, it is too big of a responsibility for the young man at this moment when he is not playing as well. For me, I would like to see Hetmyer focused on his batting, get it right first and foremost and then who knows what could happen in a couple years later,” Ambrose reasoned.
