Coley hopes Windies can build from 2024 experiences
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CMC):WEST INDIES Test head coach Andre Coley wants to see the regional team improve on their 2024 performances when they take on Pakistan in a two-match Test series later this month.It will be the West Indies’ first tour of Pakistan in 18 years, with the home side winning that three-match Test series 2-0 back in 2006.The visitors will play a three-day warmup match on January 10, with the first Test scheduled to begin on January 16 in Karachi.Speaking ahead of the Test series, Coley said the team’s focus was on putting their best feet forward in their first series of 2025.Headlines Delivered to Your Inbox Sign up for The Gleaner’s morning and evening newsletters.“A new series, a new opportunity. We haven’t played a Test match or a Test series in Pakistan for a few years, so we’re all looking forward to it and the challenges it will pose.“Creating history, there’s always an opportunity once you play a series or a match there’s an opportunity in itself. The focus shouldn’t be on creating history, it’s about using the learning from 2024 and that consistency that we have been searching for over the past 12 months, being more consistent on how we want to play the game and the brand of cricket that we want to play,” Coley said.Additionally, Coley said the tour presented opportunities for new players to make a stake for a place in the team.“There are different people in the squad, who would have missed out on opportunities before, and they can use this as an opportunity to be better and do it in conditions that, in some instances, can be different,” Coley said.He said the team was preparing for whatever conditions they encountered in Pakistan.“…So, for us it’s about us preparing so that when it is a pace or spin-friendly track, we are equally prepared to give a good account of ourselves here.“I believe everyone is looking forward to it. It’s always good to play in different conditions,” Coley said.
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