HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – Former West Indies Test batsman Gus Logie is to coach Bermuda club side Bailey’s Bay this season, the Royal Gazette newspaper said on Tuesday.
The 61-year-old Trinidadian steered Bermuda to their first World Cup – the 2007 edition staged in the Caribbean – when he was the island’s national coach.
Logie told club members: “It’s an honour and pleasure to be a part of this year’s cricket season. It’s an opportunity to teach the young players how the game should be played and, at the end of the day, hoping to see a change in attitude and approach to the game and to life in general.
“This whole vision stems from seeing and wanting to see cricket at the club level in Bermuda improve, but at the national level as well.”
Logie added that he hoped what is done at Bailey’s Bay would be replicated not only throughout the club system but also at the national level.
“…Because we are trying to produce champions. Not only champions for the clubs and the community, but the national team as well,” he said.
Irving Romaine, Bailey’s Bay director of cricket who was Bermuda captain at the 2007 World Cup, told the Gazette the club had invested in Logie “to help our programme grow and he’s here to help us as coaches, how to run a cricket programme”.
“It’s an investment for Bailey’s Bay to become so much better with our youth programme as well as our seniors. As we move forward with Gus, we definitely hope he leaves his legacy like he did from 2005 [as national coach] and passes on his knowledge so Bailey’s Bay can grow for the future,” Romaine added.
Terryn Fray, the team’s captain and also a Bermuda national team player, said the team was looking forward to having Logie coach them this season, “teaching us some things that I think we probably missed in the last couple of years”.
Fray added: “These are great times for Bailey’s Bay, so I’m looking forward to this season, looking forward to growing as a team, a unit and as a club.”
Logie was part of the powerful West Indies team in the 1980s, playing 52 Test matches between 1983 and 1991, scoring 2,470 runs at an average of 35.79, and appearing in 158 ODIs between 1981 and 1993, scoring 2,809 runs.
