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In reply to methodic

If anyone needs to be dropped is Kieren Powell

that was a top knock Shai. Ah seeing the work.

In reply to Toney

along with Carter

In reply to Toney

I don't think Powell will get any better.

Good knock Hope...just keep making runs...especially against strong teams

Congrats

In reply to methodic

Many saw his potential.

In reply to Gun_Play

Yadi & SamlordPirate ...

In reply to methodic

Top knock indeed...but that out shot though! Where did THAT come from..and to that ball?

In reply to Pacy

Lewis days numbered too

Ah didn't know much about him, but saw him play a few shots vs Pakistan N then I said to myself that this chap is going far.

In reply to Larr Pullo

is the same sweep he was playing all day. He was beaten by flight.

In reply to Yadi

Take a bow..

In reply to methodic

That noise was only coming from one corner of the room.

In reply to methodic

Now if only other players could get the same extended opportunities.

In reply to archangel

Shai's failures have mainly been in tests. He's done well in ODI's

In reply to FuzzyWuzzy

Hope and Chase the only pure batsmen we have really. Was in Bim and watched him scored 3 centuries at under 19. You could see the class right there. For years I thought his brother was the best batsman in Barbados but was just not given the run he needed to establish a spot on the Bim team. Bim, still looking for an No.2 batsman. Very short sighted management. Does the boards do anything to get players like Ambris, Hamilton and the like overseas contracts to continue playing. There is too much down time for them not to be somewhere outside of the W.I. working on their skills.

It is interesting that the Selectors were patient with Hope's development, but they were quick to discard Blackwood who was a quick starter and who have 10 Test fifties and a Test century in just about twenty something Test played. Something looks suspicious, it is because he is from a different birth place?

BLackwood played over 20 test.

Isn't that being given a run?

In reply to dayne

the selectors did not discard Blackwood

In reply to dayne

No, he is a talent bar none

One-eye man is king in Blindman Land. Very talented, but extremely lucky to have gotten the chances that he did. Blackwood could use a godfather like Shai Hope.

Anyway, let's hope he continues his upward progress. WI could ill afford to waste what little useful talent it could find these days.

In reply to Norm

List A ODIs

MAT Inns NO Runs HS Ave
Blackwood - 32 30 3 680 108* 25.18

Hope - 32 30 1 1192 125 41.10

Why the constant knockdown one to build another. Focus should be on developing more instead of just replacing one with another. Hope is one batsman that seems to work hard at overcoming his failures. Many of the others get out the same way all the time. By now their are books about each of them yet not many have improved.

In reply to seaegg99

These men acting like blackwood play one game and then get drop.

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Blackwood is young enough and have enough ability to work his way back in the starting eleven. The man was in the 13 against Pakistan so its not as if the selectors forgot about him.

In reply to seaegg99

"And", not "or".