HAMILTON, Bermuda – Former West Indies Test batsman Gus Logie is to coach Bermuda club side Bailey’s Bay this season, the Royal Gazette newspaper said on Tuesday.
The 61-year-old Trinidadian steered Bermuda to their first World Cup – the 2007 edition staged in the Caribbean – when he was the island’s national coach.
Logie told club members: “It’s an honor and pleasure to be a part of this year’s cricket season. It’s an opportunity to teach the young players how the game should be played and hope to see a change in attitude and approach to the game and life in general.
“This whole vision stems from seeing and wanting to see cricket at the club level in Bermuda improve, but at the national level.”
Logie added that he hoped what is done at Bailey’s Bay would be replicated throughout the club system and at the national level.
“…Because we are trying to produce champions. Not only champions for the clubs and the community, but the national team,” he said.
Irving Romaine, Bailey’s Bay director of cricket who was Bermuda captain at the 2007 World Cup, told the Gazette the club had invested in Logie “to help our program grow, and he’s here to help us. As coaches, how to run a cricket program.”
“It’s an investment for Bailey’s Bay to become so much better with our youth program and our seniors. As we move forward with Gus, we hope he leaves his legacy as he did from 2005 [as national coach] and passes on his knowledge so Bailey’s Bay can grow for the future,” Romaine added.
Terryn Fray, the team’s captain and a Bermuda national team player, said the group was looking forward to having Logie coach them this season, “teaching us some things that I think we probably missed in the last couple of years.”
Fray added: “These are great times for Bailey’s Bay, so I’m looking forward to this season, looking forward to growing as a team, a unit, and as a club.”
Logie was part of the mighty West Indies team in the 1980s, playing 52 Test matches between 1983 and 1991, scoring 2,470 runs at an average of 35.79, and appearing in 158 ODIs between 1981 and 1993, scoring 2,809 runs.
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