On Sunday morning, when many disheartened Caribbean fans would have just been getting out of bed, the West Indies were taking an unassailable one-nil lead in their two-match Test series against Bangladesh in Chattogram. It was first the “belief”, according to the WINDIES camp, then the determination, and not least, the fight of the team that saw the Caribbean side completing the highest successful run-chase in Asia and the second-highest in WINDIES’ history. Therefore, one would think that the match-winning partnership put on by two debutants has, at the very least, initiated the process of elimination in regards to the reluctance with which the West Indies operates when tasked with—simply put—dropping underperformers.
It is important to pick players when they are in-form, something Ian Bishop said on commentary when the Men in Maroon were on the home stretch to victory. Jermaine Blackwood, who in 2020, forced his way back into the West Indies Test team after a two-and-a-half-year absence, has been the team’s leading run-scorer since his return. Similarly, game-changers, Kyle Mayers and Nkrumah Bonner, were first and third runners-up on the run-scoring charts, to leader Blackwood, in the 2019/20 Regional 4-Day competition. “It is important to pick players when they are in-form.”
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