KINGSTOWN, St Vin­cent – For­mer West In­dies wick­et-keep­er/bats­man Carl­ton Baugh Jnr has tak­en on a new role in his crick­et­ing jour­ney, join­ing the Wind­ward Is­lands Vol­ca­noes as their as­sis­tant coach. Baugh be­gan his du­ties on Mon­day (Sep­tem­ber 2, 2024), un­der a one-year con­tract.

He will work close­ly with head coach Ken­roy Pe­ters, with a pri­ma­ry fo­cus on sharp­en­ing the skills of the team’s bats­men. The Vol­ca­noes are cur­rent­ly in prepa­ra­tion for the up­com­ing Su­per50 Cup and the West In­dies Cham­pi­onship, set to take place next year.

Baugh’s coach­ing jour­ney has seen him make sig­nif­i­cant strides, hav­ing pre­vi­ous­ly worked along­side Shane Brooks and the Ja­maica se­nior women’s crick­et team for the past two years. He al­so as­sist­ed An­drew Richard­son with the Ja­maica Scor­pi­ons fran­chise. His ex­pe­ri­ence al­so in­cludes a suc­cess­ful stint as the coach of Lu­cas Crick­et Club in Ja­maica.

Re­lo­cat­ing to St Vin­cent for his new role, Baugh ex­pressed his en­thu­si­asm about coach­ing at the re­gion­al lev­el. “I am tru­ly ex­cit­ed about this op­por­tu­ni­ty with the Wind­ward Is­lands Vol­ca­noes. It’s an ho­n­our to con­tribute to the de­vel­op­ment of the team, and I look for­ward to work­ing with Ken­roy Pe­ters, who has been a good friend of mine since our days play­ing re­gion­al U15 crick­et,” Baugh said.

Baugh, who played 21 Tests and 47 One Day In­ter­na­tion­als for the West In­dies, added that he proac­tive­ly ap­plied for the po­si­tion and was thrilled to have been se­lect­ed. Look­ing ahead, he al­so re­vealed his am­bi­tions to even­tu­al­ly tran­si­tion in­to a head coach role with­in the re­gion.

“This is a sig­nif­i­cant step in my coach­ing ca­reer, and I hope to con­tin­ue grow­ing and one day lead a team as head coach.”

CMC