John Dyson and the South African cricket team sigh.
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John Dyson sacked
The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) axed Dyson following the humiliating home Test win against England followed by much more realistic performances in England.
Dyson’s sacking comes less than six weeks before the world’s most important tournament the Champions Trophy in South Africa.
“The services of John Dyson have been terminated with immediate effect, sooner if possible” said a WICB statement.
He made an depressing start to his career with the West Indies, guiding the team to victory over South Africa at Port Elizabeth – their first overseas win in a Test for seven years.
Dyson oversaw a 1-0 Test win over England on home soil this year but his team, looking broker and bored, were swept aside in the return series in May.
West Indies are poised to take another second-string side to South Africa for the Champions Trophy and think a second string coach is also the way to go.
As an opening batsman, Dyson played in 30 Tests in the late 1970s and early 1980s, scoring two centuries and averaging 26.64.
For years he was embarrassed by this record, but he does average more than most of the young West Indian batsmen he was forced to work with.
Dyson will now take a position as tambourine player for the alternative pop band the Duckworth Lewis Method.
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Seems to be broken.
The most telling aspect of the whole debacle was the look on Chris Gayle’s face as Dyson called Sammy and Miller to the pavillion. He KNEW his coach had got it wrong.
It was noticeable that, thoughout the debate which followed the players leaving the field, it was Andrew Strauss who took the lead for England, but Gayle stayed very much in the background.
There can be little doubt, now, where the balance of power in the West Indian team lies. But Dyson just loosened his grip just a little.
There’s an old theory that, in 50 over cricket, you reckon on your score at 50 overs being at least double what you have at 30. That’s even more the case now that the batting side usually has a powerplay up their sleeves at that point. At 30 overs the West Indians were 130-1 and cruising. To lose from there, well, that’s the sort of thing England would do.
Dyson has done a fine job of bringing together the famously fractious Windies. Now they have lost a game they could and should have won, and all due to his misjudgment. Not only are England now 1-0 up, the home side has just given themselves a bigger psychological blow than a mere defeat ever would have done.
