Two weeks ago, this column wondered if West Indies selectors Clive Lloyd, Courtney Walsh, Eldine Baptiste and Courtney Browne still had testicular fortitudes and true perspectives enough to select a team capable of winning men’s ICC WT-20 2016. Thankfully, the selectors still do!
To have sent any WI team to that exciting competition without the recently-selected usual suspects would have been like committing suicide by shooting yourself just after you had also drunk poison; a dead certainty that WI would not have only lost but might have embarrassed us in India too.
Almost all of those selected have, somewhere in the world, even in the Caribbean last week, been playing much, except for those who were injured; out self-medicating an arm or a leg. So here is a real chance for players like much improved Andre Russell, Lendl Simmons and Dwayne Bravo to show real mettle for WI and to put their on-field performances ahead of any vocals.
But Darren Sammy’s men will still have to work diligently hard to qualify for the final on April 03, to try to win that competition a second time. Since WI’s selectors have bitten the bullet, after that recent shellacking in Australia, and selected a plausible team, WI stands a good chance.
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