Former South African pacer brought to west indies !

Alfonso Thomas named Windies bowling coach

Former South African pacer brought to west indies !

Former South African pacer brought on because the team works to confirm qualification for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019.
Alfonso Thomas, the previous South Africa pacer, has joined the Windies squad as bowling coach earlier than their ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier 2018 campaign in Southern Rhodesia.
Thomas, 41, featured in mere one international for South Africa, a Twenty20 match against Pakistan in 2007 once he picked up 3/25. However, he enjoyed a prosperous domestic career, with 547 excellent wickets in 164 matches, and 482 scalps in 394 limited-overs games.
“Really honored to be appointed bowling coach of a team with such nice history and hopefully I will impact a extremely proficient bunch of players!” Thomas aforementioned on Instagram.
Thomas was a daily for Somerset, and vie franchise cricket in Asian nation, Republic of India and Australia, excluding his native South Africa, and went on to achieve a name as a robust death overs bowler. He retired in 2015 as Somerset's highest wicket-taker within the T20 format: 137 in 104 matches.
According to Cricket archipelago (CWI), that declared the appointment on Wed, twenty one Gregorian calendar month, Thomas has control specialist roles on the coaching job employees within the uk and in Asian nation. He, additionally as physio David Kershaw and strength and acquisition coach Corey Bocking, were brought on to hitch head coach Stuart Law’s support employees with the aim of serving to Windies qualify for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019, the board aforementioned.
Johnny Grave, CWI chief government, additionally declared that Joel Garner had in agreement to be ambassador for the fundraising T20I match between Windies and therefore the ICC remainder of the globe XI at Lord’s on thirty one might. the money raised can go towards the restoration of cricket grounds in Dominica and Anguilla, that were broken within the hurricanes last year.