Players not playing domestic tournaments ineligble for West Indies: Michael Muirhead
Despite the numerous players vs board controversies that has inflicted West Indies cricket since the team descended into terminal decline in 1995 - 2015 will have to go down as a champion year in world of off-field controversies.
Events from the embarrassing India tour pull started a chain reaction of endless issues, which commenced with Dwayne Bravo and Kieron Pollard being axed from the 2015 World Cup squad. This followed the first CARICOM government's condemnation of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) by Grenada and St.Vincent Prime Ministers Dr Keith Mitchell and Ralph Gonzales, while Dave Cameron was re-elected as president despite majority opposition from Caribbean media and fans.
By mid-2015, the selection panel, led by West Indies legends Clive Lloyd and Courtney Walsh, began to show the first signs that they were losing the plot by axing of Shivnarine Chanderpaul for the home series versus Australia. A host of other shocking selections followed, highlighted most notably by Denesh Ramdin being strangely sacked as Test captain and young Jason Holder given the burden.
The bombs kept going off to end the year with coach Phil Simmons suspended for publicly admonishing the board for "outside interference" in preventing Bravo and Pollard from being picked. Domestically, the Trinidad & Tobago Cricket board, learning from their WICB elders the art of erudite administration, took away the captaincy and contracts from then-captain Rayad Emrit, Kevon Cooper and Evin Lewis due to them playing in the Bangladesh Premier League.