West Indies lead selector, Desmond Haynes, insists fixing the squad’s issues at the top of the order will be a priority for the new panel.

The team’s struggles, particularly at the top of the order, have been well documented in recent times.  The issue of finding a consistent partner for team captain Kraigg Brathwaite is one of the primary concerns.

Over the last five years, Brathwaite, who has scored 2188 in 40 matches during that time, has been consistent but it has proven to be somewhat of a carousel in terms of finding an opening pairing with Kieron Powell, John Campbell, and Shai Hope all being trailed for the spot at various times.

“There was good discussion regarding the opening.  That in itself is something we want to resolve shortly.  I think in all the good teams you find they have good opening batsmen so we are hoping to get our opening batsmen some confidence and make sure they can do the job for us,” Haynes told members of the media on Tuesday.

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In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

I agree with Haynes that it’s been very difficult finding a good opening partner to open with Brathwaite. Knowing we have this huge problem then finding a good number 3 batsman should be just as important. Daren Bravo safely filled that spot for us until his fiasco with the previous president and board. Since he made a come back he has not been in form and it seems as if both past and current selectors have decided to get rid of him on the test team. So Sir Desmond Haynes came with an agenda to get rid of him so instead of leaving him in the Caribbean to play in the first two rounds of our domestic competition where he would definitely hit form, somehow Sir Desmond Haynes and others found the best thing to do was to put him on the ODI and T20 teams to play a style of cricket they knew is not his style so they could find a reason to keep him out. I don’t know but we don’t build by destroying what we have

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