Joel Garner appointed as Team Manager for WI senior men’s team

Joel Garner. Photo credit: WICB
Joel Garner. Photo credit: WICB

The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has announced the appointment of Joel Garner as Team Manager for the West Indies senior men’s team.

He joined the team for the upcoming four-Test Series against India which starts this coming Thursday in Antigua. The contract will be for a period of three years.

Garner brings a wealth of management and cricketing experience to the job. He served as interim manager for the 2009 to 2010 period which included West Indies tours of Australia and Sri Lanka; South Africa and Zimbabwe tours to the West Indies and the ICC World Twenty20 which was held in the Caribbean in 2010. He also served as West Indies A Team manager.

Garner worked for Cable & Wireless in the telecommunications industry in Barbados as well as a senior officer at the island’s National Sports Council.

He has served in several roles to promote cricket in the Caribbean at events such as the World Travel Market.

He has been President of the Barbados Cricket Association (BCA) for the last three terms and contested the post of the WICB presidency in 2013.

Garner has been a director on the board for the WICB and during the period has sat on venue development and cricket committees.

Hailed as one of the greatest fast bowlers of all time, he played 58 Test matches and 98 One-Day Internationals between 1977 and 1987.

He took 259 Test wickets at an average of 20.97 each and 146 wickets in ODIs at an average of 18.84 and economy rate of 3.09 per over. He was a World Cup hero in 1979 as West Indies beat England at Lords to win the prestigious title for the second time.

“I always answer the call in West Indies cricket. It is always an honour to serve in any capacity in West Indies cricket and I’m pleased to be back with the team as manager to share my knowledge and experience to the team and be an ambassador for West Indies cricket and the region,” Garner said.

West Indies will face India in four Test matches in the upcoming series. The first match bowls off on Thursday, July 21 at the Sir Vivian Richards Cricket Ground in Antigua.

The other matches are: at Sabina Park, Jamaica (July 30 to August 3); at Darren Sammy National Cricket Stadium, St Lucia (August 9 to 13) and at Queen’s Park Oval, Trinidad (August 18 to 22).

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4 Comments

  1. %
    July 18, 2016

    Barbados! Barbados! Barbados!How many Bajans on the WI team?

    • harry
      July 18, 2016

      They were 9 Bajans on WI champion teams in 1960’s led by Worrell and Sobers both Bajans, They was regularly 5 on the champion teams of the 80’s led by Lloyd and Richards. What that tell you? When Bdos cricket strong WI cricket strong. Don’t hate…..emulate.

      • LawieBawie
        July 21, 2016

        During the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s the entire Caribbean region was riddled with numerous equally young and talented cricketers who could not make the West Indies team because they were not Bajan, Jamaican, Trinidadian, Guyanese or Antiguan. There is no doubt that they would have performed equally as good or better than some of the Bajans who were selected, but they were never given the chance. However, this is not a bashing against those Bajans who were selected, because they did pull their weight when they were selected.

  2. Channel 1
    July 18, 2016

    Oh okay. All the best sir.

    Let’s go West Indies. Looking forward to the team winning the upcoming test series against India.

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