It was only a matter of time before Denesh Ramdin joined those who were seen as being militant on last year’s abandoned tour of India on the back-burner.
We would be naïve if we saw no link between the exclusion of Dwayne Bravo and Keiron Pollard from the World Cup team in the aftermath of what transpired on the subcontinent.

We should remember that Darren Sammy was also excluded initially but reclaimed a spot after someone got injured on the tour to South Africa.

How obvious was it to interpret that the selectors appeared to be taking action, bypassing two of the more experienced players for the sport’s greatest showpiece?

This after the West Indies Cricket Board (WIBC) president Dave Cameron told Prime Ministers Ralph Gonsalves and Keith Mitchell along with the players’ legal representative Ralph Thorne at a meeting in Trinidad that there would be no recriminations from the India debacle.

The selectors, of course, wouldn’t admit to going for anyone’s jugular simply because they can choose who they like and don’t necessarily have to give any explanation.