Wright aims to sign off with win over Jersey
GUERNSEY have added incentive to regain the Inter-Insular Trophy on Saturday – as a farewell present for Ash Wright.
The GCB’s head of cricket has announced that he is heading back to England in the autumn once he has completed his fourth season in the island and he wants to leave having tasted success over Jersey.
‘I’m going back to Sussex. I’m mainly doing batting [coaching] in the pathways at Sussex,’ said Wright yesterday.
‘This is my fourth year here. There was still potential to stay on for next year, but an opportunity has come up for me and I also think it’s time for the team to have a change.
‘One thing that has always been a bugbear for me has been these inter-insulars, so Saturday’s massive. It would be great to get a win under my belt – I’ve yet to win one.’
Wright has named a strong 14-man squad for the game, boosted by the return to representative cricket for former pro Tim Ravenscroft, the in-form Tom Kirk and wicketkeeper Jason Martin. They will be led in an inter-insular for the first time by Ollie Newey.
Jersey have won the last two editions of the 50-over match, with Guernsey’s most recent win coming in 2015 under the coaching guidance of Nic Pothas.
‘With this squad I feel very confident that we are going to play some good cricket. The lads will definitely be up for it,’ Wright said.
‘It would be a very nice way to sign off.
‘If I looked at my whole time being here, I’m really pleased with what’s happened through the youth system and developing individual players to get to where they are and I think it was a massive achievement to get to where we went in the ICC tournament.
‘The biggest thing for me is the inter-insulars. It is almost the pinnacle now.
‘If we can sign off with a win, then that would be awesome.’
Guernsey face Jersey at the KGV on Saturday starting at 10.45am.
