WICB Level One Coaching course starts in Guyana tomorrow

Jan 03, 2009 Sports

Ex-Test pacer Kenny Benjamin a facilitator

Former Antigua, Leeward Islands and West Indies fast bowler Kenneth Benjamin will be Guyana as one of three overseas facilitators at the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Level One accreditation Coaching Course which will be conducted at the Guyana National Stadium at Providence from tomorrow to January 8.
According to Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Territorial Development Officer (TDO) former Test pacer Colin Stuart, the sessions, which will be conducted in the conference room of the Stadium runs from 9:00 hrs to 17:00 hrs daily.
Practical session will be done on the practice pitches behind the Players’ pavilion at the stadium and Stuart expects the exercise to be highly beneficial for the local coaches.
Apart from the 41-year-old Benjamin, who took 92 wickets at an average of 30.7 with four five-wicket hauls from 26 Tests between 1992 and 1998, 42-year-old Barbadian Wendell Coppin (who represented the West Indies at youth level in 1984 and 1985) and Jamaican Phillip Service will the be other facilitators.

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