If Darren Bravo, Kieron Pollard, Andre Russell or Sunil Narine ever play international cricket again, it will be only after they have formally demonstrated they have an interest in playing for the regional side.

Yesterday Cricket West Indies announced a 15-man squad for the upcoming World Cup Qualifiers in Zimbabwe minus the four after they opted to make themselves unavailable. The quartet have chosen instead to play in the Pakistan Super League which runs at the same time as the qualifiers.

The qualifiers, which begin on March 1, will represent a last opportunity for the West Indies to qualify for the World Cup. They missed out on automatic qualification to the premier event after falling outside of the world’s top eight by the September 30 deadline. In order to make an appearance at the global tournament in England next year the Windies, two-time champions, must now finish in the top two from the ten-team qualifier.

While insisting that the player’s decision to skip the tournament was respected, Cricket West Indies chief executive officer Johnny Grave insisted they could no longer be considered as automatic choices. He told the SportsMax Zone television programme that the four would in the future have to tell CWI if they were interested in playing for the West Indies.

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In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

keep them all away from west indies cricket.

In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

The jokes never stop flowing


Since for how long are Narine Bravo and Polly ‘automatic choices’
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In reply to Halliwell

gurantee victory all four of those dip twits !

Wonder if all y'all realise that marginalising and dropping these players is why we have to be in this tournament to begin with.

Cut off nose to spite face..then beg back nose when u realise u face look fuorkup widout it.

A joke dis

In reply to DIEHARD

We slipped to no 9 with those guys in the team

Allyuh late..very trump like,"youre fired" but he already quit..what a joke, they clearly don't give a hell about all that. Men making multi million deals and is only spite allyuh continuing to spew,get a life they don't care what convenient spiteful old men think,board or fans..

Before allyuh glad for the lil island boy dem,you looking to cut them down more with more bullshit and spite..but they don't care ,their families are very secure and nothing beats that,not some obsessive fickle old fans yearning for times gone by or some uncaring stubborn board of no progress.

Committing to CWI is taking an oath to instability , contempt both by fans and board and financial insecurity .

Get over yourselves selfish old men of no vision..those guys are more successful than most of you would ever be,they have solid homes and families,they not begging a pick for peanuts, and maybe that hurts some ah allyuh bad.

Never before has there been such demand by snakes and scorpions for 'bits and pieces' 'pelting mango', 'can't bat Pollard' and co. What good did loyalty do for Shiv Ramdin etc.

Allyuh feel man life is some lil dotish game for allyuh false entitled whims fancies and convenience, sorry massa not this time around .

In reply to FuzzyWuzzy

Wow..barefaced lie.

In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

Who Grave trying to fool?

Which if these players was ever an automatic choice?

When grave and Adams did cow bawl bout having best side and need to ha e best olayers, these players were available. Why they weren’t selected all along?

Allyuh went ahead and pick allyuh team of “loyal and committed players”. Now yuh realize that they have yuh in this position of having to qualify, yuh want to run to the same players allyuh refuse to select over the years to bail allyuh out now?

And on top of that, continue to paint them as the villain.

Go hard with that

No need for these traitors. The bajan West Indies team will deliver the goods, put West Indies back where they belong in cricket and make all West Indies fans delirious with joy again.