Simmons tells Chandrika failure can inspire success

Simmons tells Chandrika failure can inspire success

Published: Guardian
Monday, June 15, 2015

Phillip Simmons
Coach of the West Indies cricket team Phillip Simmons has told young opening batsman Rajendra Chandrika that he has to understand that sometimes you fail, then to succeed.

Chandrika who made his debut in the Test against Australia which ended yesterday failed to score in both innings.

The right-hander got identical dismissals in both innings, driving at deliveries angled across him and getting caught at gully.

Chandrika got into the Test side after hitting 75 against the Australians, playing for the WICB XI in the warm-up clash at the Sir Viv Richards ground in Antigua.

He became the second West Indian in the history of Test cricket to collect a pair of “ducks” on Test debut.

The other was Jamaican off-spinner Alf Valentine who failed to score in both innings of the famous 1950 Test match against England at Old Trafford. Speaking on the fact Simmons said: There are two things that I said to him, he has to understand that many men made bad starts to their Test career and ended up being great players. In sports sometimes you have to fail to succeed. You look at Michael Jordan who was not good at the beginning of his career and ended up being great.

“The other thing he has to understand that is he can bat, or else he would not have been on the team. He has to keep that confidence in himself, correct his flaws and move forward in his career.”

Chandrika would take heart from the fact that Sri Lanka opener Marvan Atapattu who got one run from his first six innings, including two pairs and five ‘ducks’ and went on to play 90 Test matches, scoring 5,502 runs with 16 Test hundreds at an average of 39.02.

A total of 38 batsmen have been dismissed for a pair on their debut in Test cricket.

tricky Commess 

we doh need no time to know that Chandri is not good enuff..and will never be good enuff for test cricket.  we knew dat going in.  Lloyd shud have know dat..he did too, had to have known....it was easy to see.. and picked him still

look! let deem leave Chandri alone at his level eh.  they can do whatever they can to compensate him for this extraordinary misuse of him against the Oz.  get him a gig in the english league for money, a scholarship or something worhtwhile

If according to Simmons , failure equals success then without a doubt , the West Indies cricket team has got to be the most successful team on the planet 

Well the West Indies team has been a failure for over a decade and still the fans haven't seen the success. Chandrika should go back to playing 1st class cricket because he is not ready for the big league.

Graham Gooch started his Test career with two ducks against Australia and look how his career turned out.

Great but Gooch did not play for the wicb

Haha!!! ... I'm so over Uncle Phil ... really disappointed that he seemed to have joined the boys club !!! > >

the "boys club", aka soup lickers!