The Finisher’s roller coaster ride

Tony Cozier

THE roller-coaster ride that was one of the exercises for the West Indies team on the one-week training camp in Florida last October is an apt metaphor for Darren Sammy’s captaincy.

Designed to rid nervous players of a fear of heights and, by extension, a fear of failure, Sammy said it worked for him. He already had ample experience of the ups and downs of the position; he had handled them with such composure the venture on the Big Dipper