Garner for Manager? You must be joking

The WICB has announced that Joel Garner will manage the side to Australia. This is madness and could be quite disastrous. What is the purpose of this appointment? To put pressure on Gayle and the players? That would be unwise! To undermine the players? That would be stupid.

Have we learnt anything from our past experiences? Does anyone remember that disastrous "A" team tour when Garner was Manager when discipline went through the window?

This is a provocative and ill conceived move by the Board.

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Murray stumped!

Congratulations to the "Movement for Change". It took them 4 years to find out what many knew about Deryck Murray and his administration. They benefited from the Lequay development program but took all of the credit. Hopefully, those skilled persons who were unceremoniously removed at the beginning of the Murray administration would be reinstated.

Ramkisson and Sammy will be valued members of the WICB.

However, Mr. Bassarath and his team should be careful of those with well known prejudices who will do their best to create mischief and derive maximum benefit for themselves.

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Our Curators Do Not Have A Clue About What They Are Doing!

The disappointment of West Indies' defeat in the series opener was not confined to their performance. They didn't get the pitch they wanted. This, despite the curator Richard LeTang's assertion that spinners would have a hard time on the Windsor Park track in response to West Indies coach John Dyson's call for a "hard, pacy and bouncy wicket." Instead, the track was not unlike the ones used in the Tests, where Bangladesh's spinners thrived and ultimately won their team its first series overseas.

Sheer guess work. Our curators are really groundsmen who have no clue about what they are doing. This goes for Andy Robers and the lot of them.

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WICB Elections

Heard that a Lloyd/Murray ticket will challenge Hunte/Cameron. The ticket is now seeking support which may not be forthcoming from a surprising quarter.

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Lloyd Speaks His Mind...

According to Lloyd, the leading West Indies players had become too "greedy" for their own good and their performances failed to measure up to the "obscene" amount of money they are getting paid. "When you say the West Indies team is going to withdraw from a series it is not that they are short of money. We have players who are millionaires with an average of 15.00 and they are a first-team pick," he said.

I could not agree with him more. I am siding with WICB on this one! It is clear to me that money is more important than the pride in representing your territory. Left to WIPA, there would be no money for development, all will go into the pockets of the players whose performance does not match their greed.

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Cozier and the Selectors' Merry-go-Round

Such is the way of the modern world of international cricket that the West Indies hop right back onto the merry-go-round on Friday for the first of four ODIs in Jamaica. The selectors have come up with a squad that reflects a mental state of confusion, presumably triggered by events in England.

A good piece by Tony Cozier.

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West Indies Squad for First 2 ODIs

West Indies: Chris Gayle (capt), Denesh Ramdin (wk), Lionel Baker, Darren Bravo, Dwayne Bravo, Sulieman Benn, David Bernard, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Narsingh Deonarine, Runako Morton, Ravi Rampaul, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Jerome Taylor.

Good to see Bernard and Morton in the squad. I cannot understand how Rampaul has become a specialist one day player and almost a sure pick. I am at a loss to understand the sacking of Simmonds and Sammy. The selectors are making the same mistake they did when picking Pollard on the basis of his four-day performance by picking Darren Bravo on the basis of his four-day performance - which actually declined towards the end of the Tournament. Anyway, I wish young Bravo well.

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