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Is his development as a batsman being hampered playing for Bim???

Lots of times this season he hasn't been called upon to bat or has come to wicket needing quick runs and has thrown his hand away.

Should he play for another franchise?

That may not be a bad idea at this stage.

I feel Hope has jumped ahead of him in terms of confidence and batmanship.

In my opinion, Dowrich is even better than Hope with the bat but he's not being allowed to play those long innings and develop as a batsman.

This is something the BIM selectors must look at.

Maybe it's time to get Dowrich up the order at four or let him go to another franchise.

Also, the Trini batsman... Rajah, I think his name is.
He has great potential.
The Trinis need to work with this guy.
There's definitely something there.

In reply to Gun_Play

That is an astute observation, and i think the West Indies as a whole will be better served if he played for another franchise where he would have more responsibility to hone his talents. Am very impressed with Hope and am keeping my fingers crossed that he can transfer his form and appetite for runs to the test arena.Hopefully the Administrators incharge has a plan to ensure that he gets enough reps in preparation for the tests.

Been preaching this for a while now. Bim is wasting his talent so low in the order. He should slot in right in back of Hope. I like both Brooks and Chase but Dowrich was always the better bat.

In reply to Gun_Play

His father...Aneil Rajah played for T&T in the 80s...exciting middle order batsman

In reply to NYCGURU

As far as I'm concern this season hasn't done much for his development.

If Bim can't bat him at four he should go to another franchise.

He is too talent not be given the change to develop into a proper batsman.

Each time I see him come in and have to swipe it upsets me.

In reply to Gun_Play

can we rotate the batting, the good side of this is that Bim batting is deep, as Shane bats at 6, which is not bad,I like him as Bim wk as all the positions are occupied at this time.

In reply to Gun_Play

your comment has merit... but where would he go?

In reply to hawk

I suggest rotating the batting, he is at #6 which is still a batting position.

In reply to tc1

with the top order in such form, it is hard to get a bat and when you do, it maybe when quick runs are needed, the increased risk means falling for a low score, not many takes those into context

moving him up to 3 or 4 ......maybe.

In reply to hawk

Should be right after Hope. He has played against much better bowlers and did well. Yet Mr. Browne and the other selectors allowed BIM's stooges to leave him ill prepared for the upcoming test series. Why Brooks at #4 when Dowrich will need the batting practice. No wonder our cricketers do not get better. NO FORESIGHT!

Dowridge should go to the muddies in exchange for Bramble. Bramble is more suited for the role BIM wants Dowridge to play lower down the order. Dowridge could then slot in at 4 right after Johnson and have Chanders to hold down an end whilst he gets all the batting practice he needs. Franchise cricket.

In reply to mikelegend

please to leave Bramble alone

tenks

too many bajans in one place and they might start to cock things up

let us keep Ramesh alone for now

In reply to doosra

Bajans very angry wth Ramesh

In reply to Narper

they didn't offer him a food so

u see coach crandon seh the man improve big time since he joined jags

the truth is and the bimmers know this

that Ramesh would not have gotten any consistent run, if a game at all, in this Bim set up

Guyana could use all the help it could get...

In reply to mikelegend

Would Barbados want to strengthen their Regional rivals?

In reply to WICFan

I opined that FRANCHISE cricket was for the betterment of WEST INDIAN cricket.

In reply to mikelegend

This is where the CWI needs to be able to have some influence with the franchises, for the betterment of WI cricket, they should be able to step in here and make the suggestion, and it should be taken

They should be a team entered by the WIBC each year made up of players close to being called up but not on regional teams because of whatever problems. Too many young players are sitting at home not getting the experience they need to improve their game. [b]Bim is doing him a disservice!
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Dowrich should be getting way opportunities to work on his batting.

Mat Inns NO Runs HS Ave. SR

Tests 8 14 2 409 74 34.08 49.63

In reply to seaegg99

But Dowrich is selected, the issue is the team that selected him.

CWI should be able to step in and say, bat him 4, or send him to X franchise, or like in ur suggestion to the team that they have entered.

I personally dont think they need to have their own team, I think they should have some form of oversight/ inluence on franchise strategy, aint none of these franchises making money anyways so..

In reply to Larr Pullo

why the name 'Ramesh', and not carl or Clyde

In reply to seaegg99

Bim team bats deep from 1-4, normally 5, 6 and 7 get chances to bat, hopefully, the rotate the batting

to allow 5 and 6 time at the crease and get some form.

In reply to tc1

He needs to move up to #4 now to get some time at the crease. Otherwise he will go into the test series lacking game practice.

In reply to seaegg99

he has 2 games to do that, don't forget than the current #2 bat Brooks has over 400 runs and maybe in considering for a test play or to tour England.

Brooks also had a decent A team tour.

In reply to seaegg99

You actually think if a guy cannot make one of the franchises team, an addition squad would benefit the competition?
Adding more teams with fringe players, will develue the tournament, just look at the BCA, with an Elite and 1st division.

In reply to seaegg99

I agree with you.

He should bat at four.

U should remember that Brooks has over 400 runs at 48 and has been performing for the last 3 years.

In reply to tc1

I like Brooks.

But Dowrich is a current WI player, age 24.

Sorry, but Brooks has to take a backseat.

In reply to openning

Why do you see this as a fringe squad. You have a number of young players who need the experience sitting at home instead of participating. I mentioned 4 young fast bowlers earlier that have sat on the sidelines for the better part of the PCL. I am pretty sure they are many young bats ie. Paul, Springer etc that need to play the longer versions also before they get pigeoned holed as fast food cricketers. You did notice for that they expanded the number of teams. Was not seen as such a bad idea.

In reply to Gun_Play

You are right. Dowrich have batted at 3 for the WI yet for Bim he I 6 and 7. Way too much talent to waste.

In reply to Gun_Play

I have been fighting his case for the longest. He is currently the most talented bat in the region

In reply to seaegg99

That's something for the administrators to deal with.

They have options, whether it is cutting the number of PCL contracts per team or enforcing a rule that one of the draft picks must be under the age of 23 etc.

Dowrich could bat at 5 for Barbados, but no higher, not right to drop Brooks down the order considering he's putting runs on the board.

In reply to WICFan

Dowrich is a West Indies player. A test series is approaching and he is lacking time at the crease. When he goes against top of the line bowling without match practice and fail the call will be for him to be dropped. Now whose fault is that to leave him unprepared. This is another shortsighted team management decision. Nothing against Brooks. The only reason he bats so low is because the West Indies have this old time belief that a keeper should bat at 7. Most other countries if the keeper is a good bat he goes higher in the lineup. We are wasting a talented youngman for what. He is averaging 34 runs in test cricket. We have not had many doing that in a while.

In reply to seaegg99

Consider the physical effects of keeping. De Kock is good enough to bat in the top 5, but stays at 7. Same with BJ Watling.

I actually don't think any keeper bats above 6 in test cricket currently.

In reply to CricketLuva4

I am talking about batting for Barbados right now and about getting match practice for an upcoming series. With the WI batting so inconsistent he will be sorely needed.

In reply to Gun_PlayThe TT cricket selectors are a bunch of idiots,this Rajah bloke has been in the runs for a long time but Bassarath and his gang totally ignored him.He is showing them why they shouldn't continue to do that.

In reply to granite

Okay.

He has a pretty good technique.

It would be so nice if we had an academy where we could work with all these young players from early.

In reply to seaegg99

There are very few keepers over the years that bat above # 7. We have had some very good ones who are batsmen in their own rights that commanded their position as batsmen. Perhaps the most known are Stewart (England_ and Sangakara (Sri Lanka). However, we have had some equally well know ones who batted lower successfully such as Boucher, SA and ??? from Australia (except when he opens their one day matches) who some regard as the best wicket-keeper/batsman of all time.

All I am saying, is that this is not a WI thing because most teams pick their best six batsman for the top position and the wicket-peeper who is mostly regarded as an alrounder, comes after these. Very rare does the keeper come in among the top six in a team, although he expected to be a compitent batsmen. Dolwich certainly needs to be developed as a batsman and perhaps another team needs to be inserted to catch those that are good but not in franchise. He has a problem being in the Bdos team, and he certainly need more exposure at the top of the innings.

In reply to jelfew

That is my point here. We have a test series coming up and he have not had a long innings as yet. Would be nice to go into it with more match practice. Nothing against Brooks.