PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC :
OUTGOING COACH of the West Indies cricket team, Gus Logie, has disclosed that some of the selectors did not speak to him during his tenure in office.
In an article in the Trinidad Guardian yesterday, Logie said that he felt strongly about being a selector, since he had to accept most of the blame when the team failed.
Logie described the behaviour as totally disrespectful and explained that some of the selectors may have been personalities, who were too big because of their former prowess on the field.
Logie, who became coach of the team after Australian Bennett King failed to accept the post last year, disclosed that some members of the West Indies Cricket Board never gave him the kind of support he needed.
"I am disappointed," he said. "I made a contribution and have been denied the opportunity to work with what has just begun to blossom.
"A foreign coach will come into this area and will be given the resources and authority I never had to get the job done and this just when results were being seen.
"I have made a contribution throughout my life to West Indies cricket, and it is time I move on."
Logie described the West Indies' victory in the ICC Champions Trophy last Saturday as a superb team effort and is disappointed that his stint has ended at the time and in the circumstances it did.
"Many people were looking for excuses for the team's performances for some time," he said. "I was disappointed by some of those who talk about things they had no information about."
Logie, however, was pleased to be leaving when West Indies had a major achievement, and whoever comes in now will have a confident group with which to work.
