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I sup­pose that it is on­ly nat­ur­al for those ex­perts who have been fol­low­ing close­ly on the per­for­mances of our play­ers, whether it be Test match­es, One Day In­ter­na­tion­al (ODI) or Twen­ty20 (T20) crick­et ac­tiv­i­ty be in­ter­est­ed in the se­lec­tion of the West In­dies team for the Crick­et World Cup which starts next month end.

Be­cause of the fact that there has been no or­gan­ised for­mu­la re­gard­ing the abil­i­ty of the tal­ent of play­ers in spe­cif­ic forms of the game, the task of se­lec­tion be­comes dif­fi­cult and spec­u­la­tive. Hence the rea­son why there is crit­i­cism from many of the scribes, who them­selves may be choos­ing play­ers based up­on the game for­mu­las at which they have ex­celled.

Hon­est­ly, I be­lieve that the named team could be jus­ti­fied in their choice of play­ers, if on­ly be­cause the struc­tur­al as­sess­ment of play­ers had not pre­vi­ous­ly been ex­er­cised by those who were in charge.

There are ob­vi­ous­ly some choic­es be­cause of their ver­sa­til­i­ty and con­sis­ten­cy at all lev­els. Ja­son Hold­er is one of them as he has demon­strat­ed com­pe­tence with the ball, bat and lead­er­ship. Shai Hope, Dar­ren Bra­vo, Ke­mar Roach, Shel­don Cot­trell and Ash­ley Nurse have all done rea­son­ably well.