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We start off with a vicious bouncer.

Cricket analyst Colin Murray describes West Indies all-format coach Daren Sammy as a total failure.

Murray also says it's time to remove Roston Chase as Test skipper, following the team's 2-0 loss in New Zealand.
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00:00The new World Test Championship cycle has been extremely rough for the West Indies,
00:05who lost seven out of eight Test matches.
00:07The men in Maroon were defeated in three Test series,
00:10the teams being Australia, India and New Zealand respectively.
00:14As far as cricket analyst Colin Murray is concerned,
00:17the appointment of Darren Sammy as all-format coach has not made a difference.
00:21Let us be brutally honest. Sammy has been a failure.
00:25Our ranking has gone down.
00:27Even in the ODIs, in the white ball format of the game,
00:32at Test match level, we're producing one performance every now and again.
00:38Under former Test coach Andrew Kohli,
00:40the West Indies were still able to achieve 1-1 series draws in Australia and Pakistan.
00:45With the appointment of Sammy as all-format coach,
00:47Roston Chase was named Test captain and Jamel Warkin his deputy.
00:51The thing is, you're picking players that are, I wouldn't say over the hill,
00:58but, you know, they certainly need an injection of new blood,
01:04because you're losing anyway with the older folks.
01:07Look at the captaincy, for example, with Chase at 33.
01:10You're going nowhere, and then you pick a vice-captain,
01:12a similar age, who is not even playing.
01:15Like many, Murray has also lost his patience.
01:18So what's the solution?
01:19Where are we going? Get a young captain.
01:23Get the territorial boards to start to groom a youngster.
01:27Give him the captaincy, and give him some support.
01:31But I tell you what, we're going nowhere very quickly, with Sammy at the helm.
01:35At the moment, the West Indies are at the bottom of the World Test Championship table,
01:40having finished second to last in the previous cycle.
01:43Vinod Nawani, Chiefs of Sport.
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