Letters to the editor
Newsday
Editor: Can someone somewhere get some brains for the West Indies cricket team selectors? Most WI cricket followers and, like me, still supporting the team, would like to know the criteria for selecting the team for the two-match series in Zimbabwe and what have those selected shown to deserve being selected?
Nkrumah Bonner, Jermaine Blackwood, Jomel Warrican, Raymon Reifer and Devon Thomas should all be put to pasture. They are preserved as long as it is dominant. They bring nothing to the team.
Imagine picking a team without the best batsman in the region (Shai Hope), one of the best young talents (Brandon King) and also no place for Shamarh Brooks, who has shown his mettle. What about the other young talents that emerged during the CPL? Please don’t even stupidly mention white ball and red ball. If you can bat you can bat.
I’m fed up with binary batsmen like Bonner and Blackwood (0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1) and then a score of 60 and they keep their places. It seems like the selectors just want to make sure that the captain has enough countrymen around him and then they divide the remaining places between other territories without thinking about the future of West Indies cricket.
What do we need for this incompetent board, selectors, coaches, etc to be removed and people with ability and competence entrusted with running West Indies cricket? If we start in Trinidad by voting out the existing board, which has asked for another three-year term to implement plans to improve cricket after nine years in office, then we will be on the right track.
If Cricket West Indies (CWI) is going to do cricket the way it is now, then it is time for the supporters to demand that it disband and allow the islands and Guyana to go their separate ways and apply to the ICC for individual membership. At least I will be able to hear the national anthem of TT in an international cricket game.
LARRY SOOKLALSINGH
by e-mail
