Cricket West Indies (CWI) on Tuesday (December 31) announced the appointment of Trevor Penney as the assistant coach of West Indies men’s cricket team for the limited-overs formats.
The CWI has confirmed in a statement that the Warwickshire stalwart Penney, a former Indian fielding coach, was handed a two-year contract while the 51-year-old will see the area of fielding.
The board also confirmed that Penney will join the West Indies team on 2 January while he will work with the West Indies team in white-ball formats – One-Day Internationals and T20 Internationals.
The West Indies will soon start preparations for the upcoming home series against Ireland featuring three ODIs and as many T20Is from 7 to 19 January.
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West Indies head coach, Phil Simmons said of Penney's appointment, “Trevor (Penney) is an excellent coach and has demonstrated this everywhere he has worked. He has huge experience with Sri Lanka and India at the highest international level and in most T20 leagues around the world including the CPL. He brings enormous energy and is very well respected by all the players.”
Meanwhile, Penney was excited to work with this brilliant bunch of West Indian players, adding: “I'm thrilled and excited to be given this opportunity to work with this brilliant bunch of cricketers and staff led by Kieron Pollard and Phil Simmons.”
Penney further added, “I've been lucky enough over the last few years to work with several members of the squad and the Caribbean is like 'home away from home' for me being involved in the CPL. We have two big T20 World Cups coming up (in Australia 2020 and India 2021) and it's my aim to try and improve everybody and be as good as we can and hopefully win those two major ICC events for the great people of the West Indies.”
Noteworthy, Penney played 158 first-class and 291 List A matches for Warwickshire, while he has vast coaching experience having worked with several international teams, including India, Sri Lanka, Netherlands, and USA. He has also served as an assistant coach at Kings XI Punjab, Deccan Chargers and Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League.
He also worked as well as an assistant coach with the St Lucia Zouks and St Kitts & Nevis Patriots in the Caribbean Premier League (CPL), while he was recently part of the Barbados Trident coaching staff during their successful campaign in the 2019 CPL.
(With PTI Inputs)
