Last Sunday really ought to have seen a triumphant celebration across the entire Caribbean following the West Indies’ record-breaking run-chase (236 for 6 in 19.2 overs) to defeat a shell-shocked South Africa who must surely have thought that the batting feats of Faf du Plessis and company had taken the game beyond the West Indies. The win on Sunday, the record-breaking feat and the T/20 series victory would probably have come against the expectations of many Caribbean cricket lovers who would have felt that the team might find it impossible to pick themselves up after being thoroughly outplayed by South Africa in the three-match Test series.

If there would certainly have been a celebration of sorts at the team level after last Sunday’s exertions, Chris Gayle, who, by his personal exploits in the two T/20 games played so far served a timely reminder to the cricketing world that for sheer destructive power hitting he is still ‘the man,’ so to speak, used his man-of-the-match platform to speak his mind on the issue of the exclusion of Dwayne Bravo and Keiron Pollard from the Caribbean 15-man squad for the forthcoming Cricket World Cup scheduled to take place in Australia and New Zealand from February 14 to March 28.

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