Kenyan Cricket coach http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Eldine-Ashworth-Elderfield-Baptiste-c55848 departs – Cricket news
With two months remaining on Kenyan coach, Eldine Baptiste’s contract, Cricket Kenya and the national team coach decided it was best for both parties to go their separate ways. Eldine Baptiste’s contract ran until June of this year. The Kenyan side’s dismal
performance in the World Cup was cited as one of the major reasons for the decision.
Baptiste had been the Kenyan cricket team’s coach since 2009 during which time his side played 22 One Day Internationals, though his position was always under intense scrutiny. After spells of coaching both in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757, Baptiste just
could not seem to find the right formula with his Kenyan side.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Canada-c748. The campaign is something the entire nation would like to forget as the
side failed to emulate their semi-final finish which they achieved in the 2007 edition of the World Cup.
The coach had been brought in to build on the performance but it took the team in the other direction. Under Baptiste, the Kenyan team had a win percentage of around 18 percent, a factor the Cricket Kenya’s Chief Executive, Tom Sears, was well aware of.
Sears went on to quote, “Both Cricket Kenya and Eldine Baptiste have decided that there is a need for change.”
With influential captain, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SO-Tikolo-c2546 also having announced his retirement from the game at the end of the World Cup, Kenya had lost one of its great cricketing sons. A new era seemed to waiting for in the horizon that according to Tom Sears, had nothing
to with Baptiste.
Baptiste was also facing allegations that he and the players in the Kenyan cricket team did not see eye-to-eye on most matters and the disintegration of the player-coach relationship was another factor in the decision. The final nail in the coffin of Baptiste’s
coaching tenure, however, were the below average performances of the Kenyan side in the recently concluded http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 World Cup in the subcontinent. All the factors were considered when in the performance review and resulted in both the involved parties opting to
part ways.
Tom Sears then went on and explained that Cricket Kenya looked to bring in a new coach in the near future after a detailed and extensive recruitment process. He added, “We will now conduct an extensive recruitment process to find a new national coach and
will be inviting applications from both within Kenya and overseas.”
The results of the performance review are expected to be made public in May.
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