He's had a number of innings now lower down the order in his "natural" position and still fails.
Blackwood should be in line for a recall to bat 3 if Hope continues to fail in this series.
Once selected, the debutants should be persisted with throughout the series, makes no sense dropping them after one or two tests.
Hope they come good
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Surely Hope now is also on borrowed time
In reply to DIEHARD
You gotta persist with these players now that you've earmarked them.
Perhaps it was the wrong decision to drop Blackwood.
But who knows what the situation is in camp?
Maybe he's woefully out of form and both Hetmeyer and Singh simply looked better AND had just come off scoring runs
Maybe he didn't have a good attitude in camp
Maybe he has a niggle and they thought best not to risk him
Maybe he's ill
Lots of maybes.
At the end of the day, the coaches are in the best position to determine who should play. If they get it wrong, they deal with the consequences.
Yuh cyah say Hope isn't a good player. He's scored runs domestically AND for West Indies. And remember....he was thrown in at the deep end by the previous coach to open. A position that is not his usual place in the batting order.
You need to persist with him and Blackwood and Hety and Singh etc etc. The biggest issue is that they don't have a senior player (batsman) to learn from. That's unfortunate.
In reply to imusic
Didn't you campaign for the senior batsman to go?
In reply to Runs
I said senior....not forkane methuselah
In reply to imusic
Blackwood is the senior batsman.
I think his dropping was hasty.
You're right re not having all the information, but i'm speaking based on the information I have
In reply to DIEHARD
The ONLY senior batsmen west indies have are darren bravo and samuels
we know how that goes
In reply to imusic
Who's the senior batsman in this squad?
We had senior batsmen in Lara and Shiv. What good did that produce?
Shari hope is the real deal. Chill fellas. Let the team roll. You people are too discontented and discriminating.
This team plays the next test for me. You guys haven't given them half a chance.
If you were selected how would you like to be judged on one performance???
In reply to FuzzyWuzzy
Perhaps you should ask the players they played with
In reply to imusic
I 'll ask Samuels about Lara
Hope got out to a peach of a ball...chill
In reply to imusic
Give him as long a run as Devon Smith?
Are the west indies board waiting for a fack.ing invitation to get rid of browne
Its WEST INDIES, that is truly ON BORROWED TIME.
In reply to DIEHARD
because he can't play the googly?
Mad ants boy.
Dey seriously riled up. Allyuh aint see yet.
De shithound Bishoo has to go.
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