Bridgetown, Barbados, December 8 - (
www.bcacricket.org) - Three West Indians including former international players Augustine Logie and Jimmy Adams, along with Barbadian Henderson Springer, are on a shortlist of six contenders for the post of West Indies team head coach.
That position, left vacant following the firing of Phil Simmons three months ago, as well as the appointment of a new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in light of the resignation of Michael Muirhead, are to be ratified at the quarterly meeting of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) in St. Maarten this weekend.
Well-placed sources in Antigua, the headquarters of the WICB and Jamaica, where WICB president Whycliffe "Dave" Cameron resides, told BCAcricket.org that former Australian batsman Stuart Law is among those on the shortlist for head coach, which attracted several candidates from England and Australia.
The sources did not name the other two candidates.
According to the sources, the WICB is very keen to have the new coach in place as early as next month to prepare for the tours to the Caribbean by England in February and March for three One-Day Internationals (ODI), to be followed by Pakistan for a four-match Test series.
The sources further told BCAcricket.org that interviews for the head coach were concluded last Friday by teleconference, while candidates for the CEO post were interviewed at the Accra Beach Hotel in Barbados three weeks ago.
The WICB quarterly meeting takes place on December 10 and 11 and involves 18 directors.
The 56-year-old Logie, who played 52 Tests and 158 ODIs as a middle order batsman and an outstanding fielder between 1983 and 1991 when West Indies were still dominant on the world stage, is the current coach of Trinidad & Tobago Red Force.
After retiring from the game in 1993, Logie moved into coaching and took charge of Canada before enjoying a memorable period as coach of West Indies when they won the ICC Champions Trophy under the captaincy of Brian Lara in 2004.
He, however, soon quit after the Tournament by what was described as "mutual consent".
Subsequently Logie coached Bermuda and had another stint with Canada between 2012 and 2013.
Adams, 48, is a former Jamaica and West Indies captain and middle order batsman, who played 54 Tests and 127 ODIs between 1992 and 2001.
He was head coach at English County Club, Kent, for five years and left the county in October to return to Jamaica for personal reasons. At that time he had been one of several coaches listed as a potential candidate for the West Indies role.
Springer, 52, who played 26 first-class and 31 List A (50-over) matches as an off-spinner between 1988 and 1997, served as a West Indies coach after the dismissal of Simmons in September, and was on the tours of the United Arab Emirates for the three-match Test series against Pakistan, as well as the just concluded Tri-nation ODI series in Zimbabwe.
He was appointed assistant coach of the West Indies team for the 2009 Champions Trophy and has also worked with the West Indies 'A' team, apart from being the Director of Coaching at the Barbados Cricket Association and head coach of Barbados Pride.
The 48-year-old Law served as an interim coach of Sri Lanka and was also in charge of Bangladesh, as well as being that country's Under-19s technical advisor. His was batting coach of the Australia team.
Simmons, a former Trinidad & Tobago and West Indies batsman, was the third successive West Indies head coach to be fired after serving for 18 months.
The others were former Australia batsman John Dyson and former Barbados and West Indies fast bowling all-rounder Ottis Gibson.
Dyson was sacked in August 2009 after 21 months of a three-year contract, while Gibson was also an August victim, in 2014.
Gibson had been in the job since February 2010, and had signed a second contract, which was expected to end in February 2016.
Dyson had differences with the captain and team manager, while reports suggested that Gibson was a victim of the dressing room.
Simmons was appointed in March 2015 on a three-year contract.
In announcing Simmons' dismissal on September 13, the WICB noted that the decision was taken in a meeting of the Board of Directors on September 10.


"In recent times, based on the public pronouncements of the coach and the approach internally, we have identified differences in culture and strategic approach. The WICB would therefore like to thank the coach for his contribution and wishes him the best in his future endeavours," the WICB said then.
As far as Muirhead is concerned, the WICB announced on September 2 that the Jamaican "will not be renewing his contract and will officially demit office on October 14".


Muirhead, who held the post for four years, however, remained for a couple more months.


He described his time with the WICB as “insightful, challenging, interesting and an eventful period.â€
