Stephenson offers free service as West Indies coach

Former West Indies and Nottinghamshire all-rounder Franklyn Stephenson has claimed he would turn round West Indies fortunes within three months if he were team coach.

Following the disastrous innings and 126 run defeat by Australia at Brisbane last week, Stephenson, 41, told the Nation Newspaper in Barbados that he would even offer his services for free.

"I would do that job for three months without pay and show you a difference. I said I was finished with travelling, but I would travel to help those fellas," he said.

Stephenson, who played for Tasmania, Gloucestershire, Orange Free State, Sussex, Nottinghamshire and Barbados was one of the candidates for the job of West Indies coach following the death of Malcolm Marshall last year but the West Indies Cricket Board appointed Roger Harper.

"My qualifications are more than anyone else's because nobody in the West Indies has ever won more trophies around the world than I have," he claimed.

"Every person in that team is going to go backwards because the atmosphere and the team morale is not conducive to cricket," he said.

"They need somebody with a portfolio, someone whom they look up to."