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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC:
WEST INDIES coach Bennett King says that spinners in the Caribbean region need to be further developed before they can compete effectively at the international level.
"There are steps we need to create from regional cricket so that we can help initiate those spinners then move them into international cricket," King said in the latest edition of Coach's Corner on the digicelcricket.com website.
MORE CARING ATTITUDE
He explained that he was taking a more caring attitude rather than an aggressive approach with the spinners, and looking at ways where he and regional coaches could work to develop them to a stage where they could be confident of success at the regional and international levels.
King also said that one of his objectives was to change the attitude of regional coaches towards spinners where they were considered primarily as defensive bowlers. He also added that spinners needed to use the regional competition to work out their technique instead of doing so at the top level.
"International cricket should be the time when players are at their best, not still looking for your very best and regional cricket should be like the players' tertiary education to go into international cricket," the Australian explained.
In reference to regional cricket, King likened it to "primary education at the moment so young spinners are coming into international cricket where they still do not know their trade very well. At times it's very dangerous to rush people through that stage."
King identified Test player Omari Banks and Jamaican left arm spinner Nikita Miller, who finished the recent Carib Beer First Class season with 39 wickets, as promising young spinners.
