For­mer ace West In­dies bat­ting coach, To­by Rad­ford has gone glob­al to help crick­eters stay fo­cused dur­ing the killer Coro­n­avirus (COVID19) pan­dem­ic.

Dur­ing this time sev­er­al crick­eters are stay­ing in­doors un­der in­struc­tion and Rad­ford wants them to use this time to work on get­ting tech­ni­cal ad­vice on cer­tain as­pects of their game.

The Eng­lish­man, who helped the re­gion’s key Test bats­men for ap­prox­i­mate­ly eight years, has launched a unique “one-to-one on­line coach­ing pro­gramme” to en­sure play­ers are ready when the game re­sumes.

Bats­men from every crick­et na­tion are in­vit­ed to con­tact him via his Web­site (to­byrad­ford­crick­et­coach­ing.co.uk) where he is study­ing footage from play­ers, and quick­ly cor­rect­ing their tech­ni­cal faults.

West In­dies cap­tain, Ja­son Hold­er was one of the first to con­grat­u­late Rad­ford by email on a “great idea that will help bats­men all around the world.”

“To­by is very strong at spot­ting tech­ni­cal faults and quick to come up with so­lu­tions to put them right,” said Hold­er.

“He has helped me a lot with my bat­ting, and used tech­niques to in­stil more con­fi­dence in me.”

The 48-year-old Rad­ford said: “It’s tak­en off straight away, and I’m de­light­ed to be able to of­fer bats­men of all abil­i­ties, and from any­where in the world, the same tech­ni­cal and tac­ti­cal analy­sis that I’ve been giv­ing to in­ter­na­tion­al bats­men for many years.

“With in­ter­na­tion­al lock­downs cur­rent­ly pre­vent­ing team prac­tices and get-to­geth­ers, now is the per­fect time for bats­men to put their game in top or­der for when the sea­son be­gins,” he quipped.

Rad­ford’s tech­ni­cal knowl­edge played a ma­jor part in West In­dies beat­ing Eng­land at Head­in­g­ley in 2018.