Brian Lara to assist West Indies as performance mentor

Cricket West Indies (CWI) has roped in Brian Lara as an exhibition coach to work with the West Indies global groups across designs and with the board's foundation.

Lara will be supporting the different lead trainers "in giving players strategic exhortation and working on their game sense, as well as working intimately with the Head of Cricket [Jimmy Adams] on ICC World Cup Competition key preparation," a CWI press proclamation said.

"Having invested energy with the players and mentors in Australia and in conversations with CWI, I truly accept that I can assist the players with their psychological way to deal with the game and with their strategies to find success," Lara said. His most memorable task will be with the West Indies Test crew, which he has previously participated in Zimbabwe. He will help in the arrangements in front of the principal Test beginning February 4 in Bulawayo. Before the Test, West Indies will likewise play a four-day warm-up game, beginning Saturday in Bulawayo.

"I'm truly anticipating Brian making a critical commitment to our cricket framework by giving significant direction and counsel to our players and mentors," Adams said. "We are sure that Brian will assist with working on our elite execution attitude and vital culture that will welcome us more accomplishment on the field across all arrangements. Everybody is eager to have Brian engaged with supporting our players."

West Indies' last Test series was in Australia last month, where they were cleared 2-0, not long after they had crashed out in the main round of the T20 World Cup. Nicholas Pooran ventured down as the white-ball chief later, in November.

Lara was likewise on the survey board which CWI had named to investigate West Indies' lackluster showing at the T20 World Cup.

Despite the fact that CWI didn't determine for how long Lara would function with the different groups going ahead, he came in with under ten months to go for the ODI World Cup in India and close to year and a half before the T20 World Cup in the USA and Caribbean one year from now.

In the middle between, obviously, Lara will likewise be locked in with Sunrisers Hyderabad in the 2023 IPL as their lead trainer, having taken over from Tom Surly in September last year.