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Thursday, July 24, 2025

Simmons: Cottrell deal ‘life changing’

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Sports Desk
2032 days ago
20191231
West Indies pacer Sheldon Cottrell celebrates taking the wicket of Pakistan's Imam-ul-Haq during their opening ICC World Cup match at Trent Bridge in Nottingham, England on on May 31.

West Indies pacer Sheldon Cottrell celebrates taking the wicket of Pakistan's Imam-ul-Haq during their opening ICC World Cup match at Trent Bridge in Nottingham, England on on May 31.

AP

BRIDGETOWN, Bar­ba­dos – West In­dies head coach Phil Sim­mons has de­scribed Shel­don Cot­trell’s lu­cra­tive In­di­an Pre­mier League deal as “life-chang­ing” but says he does not ex­pect it to af­fect his ca­reer.

Cot­trell, a flam­boy­ant left-arm seam­er, was snatched up in the auc­tion ear­li­er this month for US$1.2 mil­lion by Kings XI Pun­jab, mak­ing him one of the most ex­pen­sive buys for next year’s com­pe­ti­tion.

“It will def­i­nite­ly be life-chang­ing for any­one who gets a mil­lion dol­lars to play crick­et,” said Sim­mons, a for­mer West In­dies all-rounder.

“I don’t think it’s ca­reer-chang­ing be­cause I think he knows where he’s at with West In­dies crick­et and he’s the pre­mier fast bowler right now in West In­dies crick­et in white-ball crick­et.

“So I def­i­nite­ly don’t think it will be ca­reer-chang­ing but def­i­nite­ly life-chang­ing to any­one.”

Cot­trell has been West In­dies’ stand­out bowler this year in the lim­it­ed overs for­mats with 30 wick­ets from 23 ODIs and 14 scalps from 12 T20 In­ter­na­tion­als.

He was one of the few West In­dies play­ers to emerge from the World Cup de­ba­cle ear­li­er this year with his rep­u­ta­tion in­tact af­ter pick­ing up 12 wick­ets.

At Kings XI, he will team up with vet­er­an West In­dies open­er Chris Gayle and prodi­gious left-hand­ed Windies team­mate, Nicholas Pooran.

Cot­trell was one of two West In­dies play­ers land­ing mil­lion-dol­lar deals with left-han­der Shim­ron Het­my­er go­ing to Del­hi Cap­i­tals for US$1.1 mil­lion.

(CMC)


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