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Sunday, July 6, 2025

Frustration forces Ambrose to boundary line

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Dur­ing the maul­ing at the hands of South Africa in their last World Cup clash at Syd­ney last week, West In­dies bowl­ing coach Curt­ly Am­brose took to the bound­ary line in an ef­fort to stop what was go­ing on but the on­ly way he could have done that was bowl­ing the ball him­self.

South Africa racked up 409 and the West In­dies bowlers were ham­mered to all parts of the his­toric ground.

Am­brose said, "I've got the ul­ti­mate re­spect from the play­ers. That makes my job a lot eas­i­er. We talk about crick­et a lot. I have no prob­lems with them. Be­ing in­volved is some­thing that...I mean I've played this game for many years, so as a coach I don't like just to sit back when things aren't go­ing well. I like to go out and of­fer them some words of ad­vice and tell them what I think they are do­ing wrong, that kind of thing.

"None of us knows every­thing and go­ing around the bound­ary line is some­thing I don't like to do very of­ten be­cause it would ap­pear the guys can't think for them­selves. But there are points that you have to go, when things aren't go­ing well. So when you see me walk­ing around the bound­ary line is when I can't take any­more of it. I like to give guys a chance to work things out for them­selves. But once it gets to a point where they are re­al­ly strug­gling then I step in."

De­spite their in­con­sis­tent per­for­mances to date, the for­mer Test great says giv­en time, they can turn it around and be­come a force to be reck­oned with again.

"There is nev­er a ques­tion of tal­ent. We are a na­tion of tal­ent­ed crick­eters. I hon­est­ly have al­ways said that af­ter my crick­et­ing days I would re­al­ly love to put back in­to West In­dies crick­et. So I joined the team in 2014. I am en­joy­ing the job. It's a bit of a chal­lenge con­sid­er­ing that we are very in­con­sis­tent with our game at the mo­ment but I be­lieve that giv­en enough time, we can turn things around and be a force to be reck­oned with again."

Am­brose will hope that his charges take his ad­vice against In­dia in to­mor­row morn­ing on a pitch that he loved bowl­ing on at The WA­CA.


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