Bessborough Cricket Club News story


Westy's Windies

04 Feb 2016

WESTY'S WINDIES
By James Wheeler

For the current crop of Bessborough players, winter nets have only just started, but one legend has had an extremely busy winter on the international cricket scene. Our former star batsman and current professional coach Graeme West is currently leading the West Indies U19 squad in Bangladesh at the ICC Under 19 World Cup.

Westy in his role as High Performance Director for WICB has the challenge of guiding the brightest young players from all over the Caribbean into becoming top class international cricketers, his current task is to lead the Under 19 side to World Cup glory.

After negotiating their way out of a difficult group including England, the West Indies face a Quarter Final with Pakistan in the early hours of Monday morning in Fatullah on the outskirts of the capital Dhaka. The ICC U19 World Cup is being shown live on Sky Sports so tune in to see how Westy's boys get on.

Graeme progressed through our colts system and was a star performer for the club in the 1990s and early 2000s. He is the only batsman to score 2,000 runs in a single season for the club (2,012 in 1993) and was twice named Harrow Observer Player of the Year. As well as being a successful coach for our junior sides, Graeme excelled as a coach with Middlesex where he performed the role of Academy Director and Second Eleven Coach before moving to Barbados to work in his current role for WICB.

Everybody at Bessborough Cricket Club wishes Graeme and the West Indies all the best for their Quarter Final against Pakistan.