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    "editor1": "<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">Georgetown (Guyana), Feb 5 (IANS) Batting legend Alvin Kallicharran wants to see more regional coaches involved in West Indies cricket, and believes this will be essential to any revival.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">The former captain Wednesday argued that West Indian coaches would be better able to communicate with regional players, and pointed out that outstanding former players were best suited for these coaching roles, reports CMC.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">&quot;Coaches should have to communicate with environment. The coaches we need must be involved in the environment that (has) produced,&rdquo; Kallicharran said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><font face=\"tahoma, geneva, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;\">Also Read&nbsp;&rArr;&nbsp;<\/span><\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cricketnmore.com\/cricket-news\/pietersen-confirms-availability-for-full-cpl-season--6863\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\">Pietersen confirms availability for full CPL season<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">&quot;They must know how the West Indian people operate, how to handle them and that&rsquo;s what we need (to know) - how to handle our own people.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">&quot;And don&rsquo;t tell me the people who made West Indies cricket successful, that they can&rsquo;t be coaches.&quot;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">The West Indies are currently without a head coach, ever since former Barbados and West Indies fast bowler Ottis Gibson parted ways with the West Indies Cricket Board last August.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">Prior to Gibson&rsquo;s appointment, the West Indies were coached by Australians John Dyson and Bennett King.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">Kallicharran said one of the keys, however, to unlocking the potential in West Indies cricket was a return to grassroots cricket.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">&quot;We want to see the West Indies in a winning way again but you have to go back to grassroots cricket and you will see what you get,&rdquo; the 65-year-old said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">&quot;That&rsquo;s all you need. And don&rsquo;t tell me there are no facilities for us to produce cricketers.&quot;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">Kallicharran remains a celebrated figure in West Indies cricket history, playing 66 Tests and gathering 4,399 runs at an average of 44.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;\">An elegant left-hander, he plundered over 32,000 first class runs, with 87 centuries and an average of 43.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n",
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