COLIN MURRAY ON DAREN SAMMY

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A vicious bouncer to open the innings...  As Cricket analyst Colin Murray has torn into West Indies all-format coach Daren Sammy, branding his tenure a total failure...  Murray is also calling for a change in Test leadership, saying Roston Chase should be relieved of the captaincy after the 2–0 series 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.

00:27I mean, the ODIs and 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.

01:10And then you pick a vice-captain, a 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?

01:21Get 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 Export.

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