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JAMAICA CRICKET Association (JCA) president Jackie Hendriks will head a committee to review West Indies' coach Bennett King's performance.
Hendriks was asked by West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) president Ken Gordon to head the committee, which also includes Derrick Murray, Desmond Haynes and Enoch Lewis to assess King and his four-man team's performance.
Earlier this week, Chetram Singh, president of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB), had called on the WICB to review King's performance, and questioned whether he was living up to his worth as the Board pays him and his four-member coaching team US$1million annually, at a time when the WICB has a deficit of US $15 million.
Hendriks confirmed that he was contacted by WICB's president Ken Gordon two days ago, but said he was unaware of the terms of reference.
"I am to hear from him what the terms of reference are," said Hendriks who will be departing the island for a WICB meeting this weekend.
VARIOUS THINGS
"I think it's something you have to review. There are a lot of things, which I don't know anything about at this moment," Hendriks noted.
Singh had said he is not sure if the WICB can afford King at this moment without quick results.
"The question is whether we could afford the million dollars now per annum without seeing some value for it and that's where the Guyana Board is calling for an evaluation of their performance," Singh was quoted was saying.
In the story carried on cricinfo.com, Singh said an assessment should focus on the performance of the coaching team and whether its programme would reap benefits for West Indies cricket in the medium to long term. The all-Australian team includes the coach, manager, assistant manager, physiotherapist and trainer.
Singh said he and the GCB are also concerned about the power given to King.
"The coach, Bennett King, has been given too much power in our opinion, as a coach, and so some of the decisions taken inside the pavilion, the captain is now just simply carrying out those instructions and we feel that those powers, also, are too much for the coach when the captain goes outside."
