Gibson in three-way fight for Warwicks job

By Paul Bolton, County News Correspondent

Ottis Gibson remains in the running to succeed Ashley Giles as Warwickshire’s director of cricket despite reports from the Caribbean that he has agreed a new contract to continue as coach of the West Indies.

Gibson, a former England bowling coach, is understood to have been interviewed in Birmingham today by Warwickshire who are seeking to appoint a replacement for Giles, England’s new one-day and Twenty20 coach.

Gibson, who played Test cricket for the West Indies and county cricket for Glamorgan, Leicestershire and Durham, is now believed to be in a three-way fight for the Warwickshire job with two members of the current Edgbaston coaching staff who were also interviewed today.

Bowling coach Graeme Welch was right hand man to Giles when Warwickshire won the County Championship last season and is a popular figure in the dressing room and highly-regarded by the players.

Second team coach and academy director Dougie Brown played alongside Welch in the Warwickshire side that won county cricket’s first-ever treble in 1994 and has been at Edgbaston since 1990 as player and coach.

David Parsons, the England and Wales Cricket Board’s performance director, applied for the job and was among those shortlisted for a first interview.

However it is believed that Parsons, who will take the England Lions on their tour to Australia next week, is not among those offered a second interview.


Date: 24/01/2013 20:21:59 by Paul Bolton
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