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Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Narine, Cooper get green light

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Kevon Coop­er and Sunil Nar­ine can con­tin­ue their crick­et ca­reers with more con­fi­dence fol­low­ing a se­ries of tests and re­me­di­al work at a top Aus­tralian uni­ver­si­ty. Match of­fi­cials at the 2011 Caribbean T20 Cham­pi­onships last Jan­u­ary had ex­pressed con­cern about the bowl­ing ac­tion of medi­um fast bowler Coop­er and Nar­ine, a right arm off-spin­ner. As a con­se­quence, the Min­istry of Sports fi­nanced the trip Down Un­der for the bowlers and their coach Kelvin Williams. Williams said af­ter the rig­or­ous ten-day drill in­volv­ing bio-me­chan­i­cal tests and re­me­di­al ex­er­cis­es, the young bowlers are on their way to re­claim­ing their places on the na­tion­al team.

He praised Coop­er, 22, and Nar­ine, 23, for their hard work with the Aus­tralian ex­perts at the Uni­ver­si­ty of West­ern Aus­tralia in Perth which he said was equipped with the most mod­ern equip­ment cost­ing more than Aus­tralian $1.2 mil­lion. Fol­low­ing the stint both were is­sued with en­cour­ag­ing re­ports said Williams. Of Coop­er it was stat­ed: "He seems to be on the right track to fix his ac­tion but con­tin­ued strength and flex­i­bil­i­ty work is need­ed." And of Nar­ine: "He im­pressed a great amount and just needs to bowl more with his new ac­tion to in­crease the re­peata­bil­i­ty of his ac­tion."

Williams said every as­pect of the T&T bowlers' ac­tion was scru­ti­nised by a team from the uni­ver­si­ty com­pris­ing Kane Mid­dle­ton, Jack­ie Al­der­man and for­mer West­ern Aus­tralia and Kent coach Dar­ryl Fos­ter aid­ed by 15 in­frared cam­eras."Sen­sors were placed on what the ex­perts thought were the most im­por­tant ar­eas of their ac­tion and rec­om­mend what was nec­es­sary to help them to cor­rect their faults," said Williams.


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