Former NZ women's head coach Bob Carter joins CWI as batting consultant

The 66-year-old Bob Carter, who comes with an impressive coaching resume, will work across CWI's men's, women's and age-group programmes

Cricket West Indies (CWI) has appointed former New Zealand women's head coach Bob Carter as batting consultant. Carter will, in his initial one-year engagement, focus on raising batting standards across the Caribbean and strengthening the regional coaching system, CWI said.

The 66-year-old, who comes with an impressive coaching resume, will work across CWI's men's, women's and age-group programmes, with his appointment coming as West Indies prepare for the men's ODI World Cup qualifier in February and March 2027, followed by the World Cup preparation window, if West Indies were to make the cut.

Carter officially joined CWI on September 1. His first assignment will be a "regional tour later this month, taking him across all six first-class territories - Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, the Leeward Islands and the Windward Islands - where he will work directly with players and coaches," a CWI statement said.RelatedBob Carter steps away from NZC role after 21 years

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"West Indies cricket has a proud tradition of producing outstanding batsmen, and my job is to help build the base to produce future generations of world-class players," Carter said. "My focus has always been on supporting players and coaches to reach their full potential, and I am looking forward to working alongside the regional and high-performance coaches to help achieve that."

Carter, an Englishman, has close to 30 years of coaching experience. He joined the New Zealand men's set-up in 2004 as an assistant to head coach John Bracewell. After a five-year tenure, he was appointed assistant to Mike Hesson from 2012 to 2014. Carter then took over as New Zealand's women's head coach in 2019, a position he held till the end of the 2022 T20 World Cup. Carter also served as a high-performance coach with New Zealand Cricket from 2012 to 2025.

CWI said that Carter would have two principal areas of focus: providing specialist technical support to elite and emerging batters, and also strengthening the ability of regional and high-performance coaches to design and deliver effective individual batting programmes."The measure of this appointment is not what our top six look like in 12 months. It is whether the coaches he works with come out of it better at teaching batting than they went in, and whether that reaches the coaching education modules the rest of the region is taught from. That is what lasts"CWI director of cricket Miles Bascombe

He will work closely with the national coaches, while also collaborating with CWI's high-performance team to develop batting modules to be incorporated into the regional coaching pathway.

Carter's regional tour later this month will provide him with a chance to assess the batting talent and coaching needs across the Caribbean.

"West Indies teams will participate in at least six global events over the next 24-30 months, including the men's World Cup qualifier next February. The steps we take now are intended to lay the groundwork for success. Bob's immediate job is to raise the technical standard heading into these events," CWI director of cricket Miles Bascombe said.

"But the measure of this appointment is not what our top six look like in 12 months. It is whether the coaches he works with come out of it better at teaching batting than they went in, and whether that reaches the coaching education modules the rest of the region is taught from. That is what lasts."