Simmons out as West Indies coach

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West Indies head coach Phil Simmons will leave his post after the upcoming Test series with Australia in the wake of the team’s disastrous Twenty20 World Cup campaign, Cricket West Indies said Monday.
A statement from CWI said Simmons would step down after overseeing the West Indies’ two-Test series against Australia, which gets under way in Perth on November 30.
The announcement follows the West Indies’ humiliating first round exit from the T20 World Cup, which was sealed after a nine-wicket thrashing by Ireland in Hobart on Friday. The team also suffered an embarrassing loss to Scotland.
In a statement released by the CWI, Simmons said that while the T20 debacle had been “disappointing and heart-wrenching”, he had already been considering his position for “some time”.
“This is not a knee-jerk reaction, but a move I have been considering for some time and now is the time to make public that I will step down as West Indies head coach at the end of the Test series against Australia,” said Simmons.