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Wednesday, August 13, 2025

HPC head: Sir Viv can create winning culture

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CAVE HILL–High Per­for­mance Cen­tre head coach, Graeme West be­lieves the pres­ence of leg­endary West In­dies cap­tain Sir Vi­vian Richards in the train­ing camp for the up­com­ing Bangladesh A se­ries can help cre­ate a cul­ture of win­ning in the young group.Sir Vi­vian, who nev­er lost a Test se­ries as cap­tain, has joined the HPC squad as a tech­ni­cal ad­vi­sor for the tour which runs from May 26 to June 15, and which com­pris­es two four-day, three 50 overs-a-side and two Twen­ty20 match­es."When you look at the ex­pe­ri­ences that he had and the teams in which he played, he helped to cre­ate a cul­ture of win­ning–and this is one of things we want him to em­pha­sise dur­ing our ses­sions with the play­ers–how to cre­ate and main­tain a win­ning habit," West said.

"We need win­ners and we need win­ning teams and we need cham­pi­on play­ers, and they do not come any big­ger than Sir Viv."Sir Viv has al­ready made his pres­ence felt in the camp which opened on Tues­day at the 3Ws Oval, UWI Cave Hill. He has spent time with both bats­men and bowlers im­part­ing knowl­edge, and has tak­en an ac­tive role in train­ing ses­sions.West said in ad­di­tion to pass­ing on tech­ni­cal ad­vice, Sir Viv would al­so be crit­i­cal in in­still­ing con­fi­dence in play­ers."In the few ses­sions he has had so far, you can still see that hunger, that pas­sion, that de­sire for West In­dies to be suc­cess­ful still burns with­in him," said West."He can al­so add val­ue with the bats­men in terms of lit­tle tech­ni­cal and tac­ti­cal ap­proach­es that can help them, but he is al­so very keen on help­ing them to build con­fi­dence and self-be­lief. It's a great op­por­tu­ni­ty for all of us and it rais­es the bar in terms of what we are able to of­fer."

Sir Viv was the most dev­as­tat­ing bats­men of his era, com­pil­ing 8540 runs from 121 Tests, at an av­er­age of 50.23. He led West In­dies in 50 Tests, win­ning 27, los­ing just eight and draw­ing 15.

More re­cent­ly, Sir Viv served in an ad­vi­so­ry ca­pac­i­ty to Twen­ty20 teams in the Aus­tralia Big Bash and the In­di­an Pre­mier League."To work along­side some­one like Sir Viv is a priv­i­lege and his pres­ence of­fers a num­ber of things to the play­ers as we pre­pare for the up­com­ing match­es," West point­ed out."First, the play­ers can see the im­por­tance of this camp when some­one of the cal­i­bre of Sir Viv is stand­ing there and ob­serv­ing them, talk­ing to them, of­fer­ing some men­tor­ing to them. The val­ue that brings to the pro­gramme, you can­not put a price on it. (CMC)

SQUAD:Sunil Am­bris, Rons­ford Beat­on, De­ven­dra Bishoo, Jer­maine Black­wood, Car­los Brath­waite, Kraigg Brath­waite, Jonathan Carter, Shel­don Cot­trell, Miguel Cum­mins, As­sad Fu­dadin, Leon John­son, Ash­ley Nurse, Chad­wick Wal­ton

Sched­ule

May 26-29: 1st Four-day match � Wind­ward Crick­et Club, Lu­cas Street, Bar­ba­dos

June 2-5: 2nd Four-day match � Kens­ing­ton Oval, Bridgetown, Bar­ba­dos

June 8: 1st 50 overs-a-side match � Kens­ing­ton Oval

June 10: 2nd 50 overs-a-side match � Wind­ward Crick­et Club

June 12: 3rd 50 overs-a-side match � Desmond Haynes Oval, Black Rock, Bar­ba­dos

June 14: 1st Twen­ty20 � Kens­ing­ton Oval

June 15: 2nd Twen­ty20 � Three Ws Oval, Cave Hill, Bar­ba­dos


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