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Friday, February 21, 2025

Coley wants West Indies to “remain hungry” after success in Pakistan

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Sport Desk
23 days ago
20250129
Andre Coley...West Indies Test head coach.

Andre Coley...West Indies Test head coach.

MUL­TAN, Pak­istan – Out­go­ing West In­dies Test head coach An­dre Co­ley has called for the play­ers to build on their his­toric Test win in Pak­istan and to be hun­gry for more suc­cess.

West In­dies de­feat­ed Pak­istan by 120 runs in the sec­ond Test at the Mul­tan Crick­et Sta­di­um to reg­is­ter their first Test vic­to­ry on the Asian coun­try since 1990.

Co­ley was al­so in charge of the team when they shocked the world by beat­ing Aus­tralia at the Gab­ba last year to win their first Test match there in 27 years.

The two-match Pak­istan tour was Co­ley’s last se­ries in charge of the re­gion­al side, with ODI and T20 head coach Daren Sam­my set to take over the reins at the be­gin­ning of April.

How­ev­er, Co­ley said while those two his­toric wins were mem­o­rable, he wants to see the West In­dies win on a more reg­u­lar ba­sis.

“Every match we play we set out to win.

“When I re­flect on those two wins away from home, there was a will­ing­ness to learn and adapt quite quick­ly and you want to en­sure that you’re not nec­es­sar­i­ly start­ing se­ries away from home where you’re look­ing to catch up all the time,” Co­ley said dur­ing an in­ter­view on Tues­day.

“I think over the last 12-18 months we have played at home, we’ve played away, so the play­ers that we’ve had in the squad would have had some amount of ex­po­sure with for­eign con­di­tions.

“So, it’s very im­por­tant that the play­ers now take that, log it for fu­ture and look to build on them, be­cause you could po­ten­tial­ly find for­eign con­di­tions at home, de­pend­ing on how you want to set up con­di­tions to be ef­fec­tive at home.

“…We may get a per­for­mance here and there, but we re­al­ly need to keep that hunger and keep learn­ing,” he main­tained.

Af­ter los­ing the first Test by 127 runs, Co­ley said it took a mas­sive ef­fort from the play­ers to turn around their for­tunes in the sec­ond Test in tough con­di­tions.

He said the win showed that the side had made ma­jor im­prove­ments over the last year.

“A good win, and it al­so shows im­prove­ment as the se­ries pro­gressed. Re­al­ly putting most things to­geth­er in all of the ar­eas in the sec­ond Test was good to see,” Co­ley said.

“We an­tic­i­pat­ed spin even be­fore com­ing here, but the sur­faces we en­coun­tered ac­tu­al­ly spun from day one. The pitch­es in some in­stances ap­peared to be what we would be used to in maybe a day three pitch, so it was re­al­ly a test of our skills, test of our men­tal strength and our mind­set…

“What was al­so good is it’s learn­ing for the play­ers in a sense, where on a tour they’re go­ing to be in­stances where you need to make cer­tain ad­just­ments, some might be tech­ni­cal, some might be tac­ti­cal…” he added.

CMC


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