Australian John Dyson was sacked as coach of West Indies on Thursday. Assistant coach David Williams will lead the team at the Champions Trophy in South Africa next month while former Test spinner Lance Gibbs will serve as manager.
The 53-year-old Dyson, who played 30 Tests and 29 one-dayers between 1977 and 1984, coached Sri Lanka for nearly two years from 2003.
West Indies coach John Dyson has spent two years trying to turn a group of talented individuals into a team that can win again and after the first test rout of England he senses things are starting to come together.
The former Australia player signed a two-year contract that takes him through to the 2007 World Cup.
England claimed their first international win since August in farcical circumstances when the West Indies miscalculated the Duckworth-Lewis target at the end of the opening one-dayer in Guyana on Friday. West Indies, chasing England's 50-over total of 270 for 7, were offered the chance to go off due to rain and bad light and their Australian coach John Dyson beckoned the batsmen off the field. However, the hosts were one run short of the Duckworth-Lewis target.
Former champion John Daly produced some spectacular early fireworks to set the pace in the British Open first round on Thursday.
History has not seen a cricketing rivalry as fierce as this this century, every ball bowled every run taken, coming with no quarter given. Ahead of India's five Test tour of Australia, Norma Astrid Godinho/Rediff.com takes a walk down memory lane, recounting India's sojourns Down Under from 1947 to 2021, in a 4-part series.
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