Who will replace coach Williams?

Chief Executive Officer of the TTCB, Forbes Persaud said that former Test players Raphick Jumadeen who is also a national selector, Larry Gomes and former TT all-rounder Kelvin Williams are in line to assume the position.

Gomes recently served as assistant coach of the West Indies Under-19 team at the KFC Cup tournament and also served as coach of the Under-19 team earlier this season in the TCL Under-19 Cricket Challenge.

David Williams, the regular coach of the team, has been called up by the West Indies Cricket Board for the current camp in Barbados and will travel with the West Indies team to Zimbabwe, where he and Barbadian Henderson Springer will share the coaching duties.

Australian John Dyson who was appointed coach of the West Indies team is not a part of the camp and will also be unavailable for the tour of Zimbabwe due to domestic matters. Williams and Springer will also travel with Dyson to South Africa as his assistants. This means that TT will be without the services of Williams until February, 2008.

The TTCB has in the interim called on Raphick Jumadeen to continue the training programme with the national team until they finalise a coach during the coming week.

Jumadeen, who played 12 Tests for the West Indies as a left-arm spinner between 1972 and 1979, deputised for David Williams earlier this year when he served as assistant coach to the West Indies team at the Twenty20 World Cup in South Africa.

Kelvin Williams, who has been back in Trinidad for the past four years after playing domestic cricket in England and Australia, served as assistant coach to Phil Simmons for the TT team in 2004 and since then he has worked on different coaching programmes at the National Cricket Centre.

TT begin their Carib Cup bid on January 4 against Guyana at Guaracara Park in Pointe-a-Pierre.