HAMILTON, Bermuda, CMC – West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) chief Steve Camacho has scotched rumours in Bermuda that departing national coach Gus Logie is being lined up again as coach of the Test side.

Logie, a 48-year-old Trinidadian, who played on the dominant West Indies team of the 1980s, and later coached the team from 2003 until October 2004, leaves Bermuda shortly after deciding not to seek an extension to his four-year contract.
He has so far kept his future plans under wraps.

Pouring cold water on the idea of Logie returning to the West Indies set-up, Camacho, the WICB’s acting chief executive officer, told the Royal Gazette: “We have had no application from Gus for the job and we have not contacted him.”

Reports are that the WICB is targeting former West Indies players, batsman Phil Simmons and bowler Ottis Gibson for the West Indies coaching job after Australian John Dyson was sacked earlier this month.

Simmons is currently national coach of Ireland while Gibson is England’s bowling coach.

Meanwhile, Bermuda Cricket Board (BCB) chief executive Neil Speight is remaining tight-lipped on who might replace Logie, whose final match in charge ended with a 45-run defeat by Uganda in a 50-overs match here on Monday.

Little is known about the BCB short list, although the Gazette said former West Indies fast bowler Franklin Stephenson was believed to be interested.

Former BCB president El James believes Logie will be a hard act to follow as national coach.