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12/13/2004 
KING: ERASE THE WORD "POTENTIAL"  
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BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - New coach Bennett King wants to erase the word "potential" from the West Indies' vocabulary and focus upon production as he embarks upon the task of transforming the team into a successful unit. King believes the word "potential" leaves too much to chance and he would rather a player clearly demonstrate that he has the capacity to perform at the highest level of the game, rather than show he has promise. "I hate the word 'potential'," he told reporters at a news conference on Thursday at the Three Ws Oval. "To me it means something that has not been seen and I would rather be able to see a player produce. There are some aspects that I think are key and cricket is a skills-based game, and that's one of the beauties of the game. The skills side is important and they can be learnt." In going forward, King outlined that he would want to develop a set of criteria, along with the West Indies selectors, to guide the process of selection to the team. "We hope to come to some better criteria for picking players, so that if players are not selected, they have a specific area that they can target in terms of improving, so they can get selected," he said. "My way is that players coming to these camps get an exit interview and, from this, we can be more specific in setting them some drills when they are home to help correct their deficiencies." LITTLE BEHIND King admitted that they were a little behind on the video analysis of Pakistan and hosts Australia, their opponents in next month's three-nation limited-overs series, but this would rectified in the coming days. "We have been working on how to get the info on the sides we are going to be playing," he said. "In other places, there is usually a video library that helps make visual statements about how people play. It's going to take us a fair bit to start putting history together and with that info we would be able to make informative movies for the players about their opponents." In this regard, he felt having some prior knowledge of the Australian team was an advantage, but he did not agree that going to his homeland would work to any other significant advantage. "We are going to get some good facilities in Australia and this will be a good opportunity for me to stretch the boys a little and make them work, and see what their peak levels are," he said. "I know some of the Aussie players, but on the down side, I don't know too much about the Pakistanis and will be looking to the players who have played against them to give me the 'intel'." PROGRAMME King noted he had already worked out the team's programme for when they reach Australia and this will also include an element of sightseeing. "All of our training times, all of our preview meeting times, all of our review meeting times, all of our recovery times, they are all in place," he said. "We have had them for about a month. We have also included seeing some of the historic sites in Australia because I think it is important for the players to learn a little bit about the place to which they are going and to understand the people and their cultures." After a respite on Thursday, the West Indies training camp resumes at the Three Ws Oval on Friday and concludes next Wednesday. The West Indies 14-member squad is to be selected and announced on Friday before departing for Australia on December 29. Reprinted from windiescricket.com
 

 


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KING: ERASE THE WORD "POTENTIAL"