Former West Indies batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan has accepted Cricket West Indies’ offer to come on board as a mentor for the team’s tri-nations ODI series in Ireland, and subsequently the World Cup in England.
The 38-year-old Sarwan, who played 87 Tests, 181 ODIs and 18 Twenty20 Internationals between 2000 and 2013, joins with immediate effect and will spend the remaining week working with the team with the specific view of helping the batsmen improve their defensive technique.
On being given the opportunity to work with the team, an “overwhelmed” Sarwan said, “I am very excited to be here. When I received the call, I was very overwhelmed at being asked to assist West Indies cricket again. I am really grateful for the opportunity and I am looking forward to sharing my knowledge with the players, even though it will just be a few days, and hoping it will help them in some way or other.
“I have come here to act as kind of a mentor to the players and try my best to assist them in any technical ways and with any shortcomings where I think they can improve, and to offer as much help to the head coach, Floyd Reifer, and his coaching staff,” Sarwan told Cricket West Indies.
“I know our batsmen have struggled in the past with rotating the strike, so I am trying to see how best we can get them to improve in this area,” he said. “It’s not an overnight fix, but it’s important to share ideas with them, so that they have something to build on.”
