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both squads:

interesting

Joshua DaSilva must have seriously pissed off the decision makers

Good to see Jerome Taylor and John Eugene in the mix

Wasn't Blades and Andrews selected for the Ireland and England tours that are happening at the same period of time as the South African tour?

In reply to dayne

cwi did not update the list campbell and blades were chosen to replace shepherd and rutherford in the odi squad they should not be in the a side squad

Ways.2 days before the 1st game. Is bush league windball.

Looks like Da Silva career done in maroon.

They pick all of the hopefuls to make up the batting except him and Chase. The person who scored the most runs after Jason Mohammed in regional cricket this year.

I agree, the treatment of DaSilva here is disgraceful. Did a good previously captaining the A side in SA.

Suh all the matched playing in St Lucia at Sammy's stadium.

What is Paint doing in an "A" team?

In reply to Kay

Kraigg is playing in the final A team match to be match ready for the Test against Australia. However the exclusion of DaSilva for every match of all tours could be saying something, either they are punishing him for something, or they offered him inclusion, but he told them go to hell after he was not given the captaincy of no team of any match.

In reply to Conorboy

Forget that. Da Silva has contributed to rare wins for WI in actual tests, Bangladesh, England and Australia. Man is only 26 years. If he don't get pick vs Aussies, he should tell them goodbye and find a county side to play for.

In reply to dayne

It's clear, Da Silva is not being picked otherwise he would have gotten the batting practice vs SA A team like Kraig.

However, they did interview him for the captaincy..so he might be in the loop.

In reply to imusic

Josh must be hurt

In reply to Baje

Maybe. Probably hurt for the captaincy too

2 odd things:

1 - How late this announcement has been made

2 - when they announced the WI test captain, they made sure to mention that Shai Hope was approached and turned it down.

They announced this squad nearly a day before the first match. There are 3 squads and they haven’t mentioned anything about Da Silva at all, even though they know there will be questions.

Proper communication is obviously not a priority for CWI

In reply to imusic

About Josh DaSilva:

Link

In reply to WIForever

CWI is looking forward, not in the rearview mirror .

Curious that Joshua Bishop wasn’t selected either. He took the 2nd most wickets in the recently concluded regional 4 day championship, and has been consistent near the top of the bowling stats for a few years now.

The 3 highest run scorers in the 4 day regional championship were not selected.

Yet St Lucia’s Gillon Tyson gets selected in all formats. Based on what exactly?

I believe these and other anomalies are precisely why they delayed naming the squad.

Some things never change.

In reply to imusic

Bad......

Silva,Seales,Alazari,Chase,Holder,Roach all part of squad ...,non features for varied reasons....

In reply to imusic

The new selection policy alleged to be more based on scientific data base......leaves huge space for manipulation.....

My boy Goolie in the mix......better if also part of test..
Oshane ... Deserving....
Love to see..Layne and Oshane bowling....with Ojay...
Ali Mohammed...most deserving...
Bishop hard done...
Jason Mohammad...well did everything but....

Although, Shamar Joseph is part of England -Ireland tour....at present in India and chances are that he may return to Caribbean....or at most will join in England leg of ODIs

the cwi must be seeing something that nobody has seen from warrican for years test vice captain and captaining one of the a sides

Who selected these squads?

- Joshua Bishop was consistent with bat and ball and yet he wasn't considered?
- What did Tyson and Shields do to make all the squads? Why didn't they consider Anderson Phillips and Matthew Forde? Even young Simmonds and Chemar Holder who finished with more wickets than both of them.
- Why is Parris not in all of the squads? De man had better numbers than most of dem who made some of the squads.