Coach Logie welcomes teen speedster

CASTRIES: West Indies coach Gus Logie has embraced the arrival of Jerome Taylor into big time cricket. The 18-year-old Taylor was named on Monday in the West Indies 14-man squad for the first Cable and Wireless Test match against Sri Lanka starting tomorrow in St. Lucia. “Having seen him for the first time, I am quite impressed with him, I think he has some quality in him,” Logie said. Taylor made his international debut last Wednesday and bowled creditably in the third Cable and Wireless One-Day International (ODI). He took two for 39 off 10 overs and helped the West Indies win the match by six wickets, the Caribbean’s only triumph in the three-match series. “He seems a young man who is quite enthusiastic, he has a good head on his shoulders,” Logie said. “Certainly it will only help him in his own confidence to move forward by being in the team with possibly the likes of (Mervyn) Dillon and others to guide him along, which will be very much important to his development,” Logie added. If Taylor gets into the eleven tomorrow, he will become the youngest player to represent the West Indies in Test cricket since Vincentian Alfie Roberts played his only Test against New Zealand in Auckland in 1956.