Bridgetown (Barbados), May 28 (ANI): Carl Hooper, the former Guyana and West Indies captain, has been appointed as batting coach of the Sagicor High Performance Centre to groom the talent pool at the HPC.
The 44-year-old started work with the emerging players earlier this month at the Sagicor HPC located at the Cave Hill Campus of the University of the West Indies in Barbados.
"The amount of talent I am seeing here (at the Sagicor HPC) has surprised me. I was away [from West Indies] for a while and you would see the game on television, but now that you get close and actually see the guys playing it is clear there is still a lot of talent around," said Hooper who lives in Australia.
He said he enjoys working with players, helping with their development and preparing them for a higher level of the game.
"Having an 'academy' is a great thing for West Indies cricket. The good thing about it is that you have your best young players assembled together and they get to work together as a team. The efforts and emphasis, as is being done, have to be placed on 'academies' at the developmental levels, if we are to see an improvement in the game."
Hooper is pleased with the players and has been particularly impressed with the level of focus of his young students and their knowledge of the game. He has also been quite impressed by their skill levels.
Hooper, who played for the West Indies between 1987 and 2003, was a favourite among fans in the Caribbean. Spectators fell in love with his silky-smooth strokeplay and warm personality.
He played 102 Test matches and 227 One-Day Internationals for the West Indies before retiring from the international stage after the 2003 World Cup in South Africa. (ANI)
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