Eldine Baptiste departs as Cricket Kenya coach following poor performance in ICC World Cup 2011
Kenya coach Eldine Baptiste has stepped down from his role, two months before his contract ends with the Cricket Kenya in the wake of country’s devastating performance in the recently concluded ICC World Cup 2011.
Baptiste took over as coach of Kenya cricket team back in September 2009 and his term was due to end in June 2011. However, the former http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760 pace bowler and the organisation decided to part ways a bit early.
Baptiste’s departure brought to an end the alleged differences between him and the players that surfaced during the high-profile tournament where Kenya returned winless losing all of its six World Cup games to finish at the bottom of the group.
Cricket Kenya is conducting a review of team’s performance in the ICC World Cup 2011 and the CK chief executive, Tom Sears on Monday told the media reporters that the position of coach had also come under scrutiny.
“Both Cricket http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Kenya-c752 and Eldine Baptiste have decided that there is a need for change,” said Sears while talking to the media. “I would like to commend Eldine for his professionalism and honesty during the review process.”
The CK chief executive also told the reporters that they will now conduct a comprehensive recruitment process to fill the vacant post of national coach. He said that this was a crucial appointment and they will invite applications from both within Kenya
and overseas.
Sears also opined that they would bring extensive changes at every level of the national game, adding that the review process would evaluate each operational area.
“We expect to make public the full findings of the review in mid-May once we have consulted with the ICC. We have to use this opportunity to change for the better and fulfil the undoubted potential of cricket in Kenya,” added the CK chief.
Kenya impressed the cricketing world by their performances in the previous editions of the ICC Cricket World Cups but failed miserably during the recently concluded 2011 edition.
Such below-par performances by the minnows of international cricket have forced the International Cricket Council to eliminate them from cricket’s elite competition when it is staged four years later in 2015.
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