There was a time under the Ed Bailey administration at the then Bermuda Cricket Board of Control 1988 that Clarence Parfitt almost got the job of national coach.He came back for talks with the Board but when nothing materialized he got frustrated and went back to Scotland.Then in 2005, just before the successful World Cup qualifying campaign, he saw another opportunity open up, if not as head coach then perhaps as a bowling coach for the national teams.That, too, came to nothing.Nowadays, Bermuda’s greatest bowling talent, who turned 67 last weekend, prefers not to get his hopes up of ever getting the opportunity to coach in his own country, even though he knows he could make a valuable contribution.“It was 1988, I came back home because the Board asked me to come back, but nothing materialized so I went back to Scotland,” Parfitt said.“I was here for a month. I found out from somebody who said ‘listen, half the board don’t want you’. I said well, if you don’t want me, I just got a call from a club in Scotland who told me to name my price’. I went back to Scotland. That’s water under the bridge now.”Fast forward to 2005 and Parfitt got his hopes up again after it looked like something might develop ahead of the World Cup qualifying tournament in Ireland.“I had spoken to them but nobody could tell me what the deal was, contract-wise,” said the former medium-pacer who holds coaching qualifications in Scotland and only just recently retired as Regional Development Officer for Scottish cricket.