In another reshuffle in West Indies cricket, CWI president Ricky Skerritt has announced Kieron Pollard as the new ODI and T20I captain. Pollard has not played an ODI in nearly three years but CWI has decided to give him the captaincy after Jason Holder led them in the format recently in the World Cup and against India at home.

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Hope this is the dawn of a new dispensation.

With the departure of the H&H axis, and its last remnant Dave Cameron,it seems the victimization of our top players is at an end and reconciliation can now continue apace.

As Gayle asked almost a decade ago "A Who De People Dem Come Fi See?"

One can only hope this is the end of the era of the egotistical, autocratic and overbearing administrators who apparently believed it was all about them so they competed with the players for the spotlight.

If we must lose let us at least give ourselves the best chance of competing by at all times selecting our best possible teams, without regard to the passport.

In reply to jacksprat

Wait till the next Series and if we lose

Watch dem cuss Trini's for supporting Skerrit Administration.

Just forking great" Now we got to deal with this horse face pelting c.nt again. All we need now is the hyena big bravo and sir nose sammy.No island forkup and embarrassed the west indies more than these brainless swiping, pelting TT" c"nts. Recycling this Johnny" instead of budding! young talent and building a team. A dry drunk like Ske,rot.

In reply to hairline1
Then there is the giant man with breasts bigger than Madonna . . .

What kind of fcukrey is this? The guy is not good enough to make the World Cup squad, but you turn around and make him captain? Prediction: Skerritt will be buried in a shallow grave for this idiocy Welcome to the dawn of the traffic cop captaincy folks, not seen since Darren Ganga was at the helm briefly

In reply to Walco

careful what you ask for eh walco

yall din want pybus

well tek dis

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i predict that Polly will make lots of runs and bowl well when he starts to captain.

live long and prosper Polly

In reply to sudden

until t20 money haffi mek?

or are we going to see full time commitment?

Man it is official now. I jump on AUS bandwagon. Its too hard to watch this nonsensical charade - even a selection of Pooran as ODI skipper I coulda a swallow.

In reply to doosra

He giving back what he took..How magnanimous of him.
Lol

In reply to doosra

One term President.. ah man who cant even make the ODI squad is now the cappo..

Only in the WI yuh see shyte like this

Could understand they giving him the t20 cappo but ODI? Seriously? This gotta be the worst set of crooks to ever run things

In reply to Walco

Good enough to make it, but wasn't selected

who to put?

Entirely appropriate to have Pollard as WI T20 captain.

His record in that form of the game makes sense in that form of the game

Poland’s ODI record is poor and doesn’t warrant selection on the current ODI team. So once again, CWI appoints a “specialist captain”

You’d think they’d learn by now.

In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

Hehehehe

Skerritt functioning just as I expected.

Someone posted above that one better be careful what you ask for.... Skerrit after 1 month is making Cameron look like a genius.


My gosh someone better hurry up and find out what else Skerrit promised in order to become president, cuz this ship could be sinking faster than the titanic.

In reply to imusic

excellent move

In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com well it appears that names were put into a hat and Pollard was the lucky one to be drawn. When I think I have seen and heard everything the WICB comes up with a new gimmick. Incredible to name someone captain of the West Indies team in two formats when they have not been selected on the team and is a fill in captain for Dwayne Bravo in the CPL.

Pollard - stale Apple juice in a rusty can..

In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com
CC needs to bold and enlarge the statement:

In reply to Khaga
sweet cider with iron?

my lord it just gets worse and worse in wi cricket

Change was needed, it is going to bring new energy to the team, Holder had a long run, time for a new leader, I would have prefer to give it to a regular member of the team, but apart from Hope there are none that could justify being in that position.

In reply to DIEHARD

Good enough to make it based on what? Certainly not his performance in the last 50-over competition prior to the World Cup

It appears that Skerritt is keeping the promises he made to get votes for the presidency.

In reply to doosra

I did not ask for any of this doosie. I was cautiously optimistic that Skerritt would be a change for the better, but he much wusserrer than Dave

In reply to Walco

neva trust a politician

In reply to velo
first a fat man, now a real man
Drax: He's not a dude. You're a dude. This is a MAN. A handsome, muscular man. Quill: I'm muscular. Rocket: Who are you kidding, Quill? . . . his muscles are made of Chitauri metal fiber... Quill: Stop massaging his muscles. [to Mantis]

In reply to doosra

I have a good friend in Jamaica who says the same thing. He says that a politician will arrange for you to be killed and then show up at your funeral and cry with the mourners

In reply to Walco

the only issue is the extent of the promises

keep an eye out

Looks like CWI is trying to determine how effective is JHo's captaincy. Replace him with someone who is less likely to win in one case (Polly in ODIs), and less likely to lose in the other (Polly in T20s), and see what happens.

If Polly wins more matches then JHo's leadership was poor. If Polly does not win more then no captain will make a difference. If Polly loses much more, then JHo will be welcome back to the captaincy.

Anyway, this should be good for both Polly and JHo. Polly has a great opportunity to "give back" to WI cricket and fans, and JHo gets a "time out" to study captaincy from the outside - to learn more, or to decide if captaincy is really for him.

In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

So what if he has not played an ODI in 3 years?
look at the shyte that do play ODI's .

Wish Lara and Viv, Greenidge, Haynes , Mikey Croft etc can came back and play. What will you guys say then?

We cannot beat Bangladesh so that tells you the shyte squad we have.
Hopefully Polly gets a squad he is comfortable with and goes out and make you guys eat shyte not crow.

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In reply to Star

Jimmy you deserve that recent raise

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In reply to sudden
As much as you would like to, you cannot in good faith deny the good vibes the region is feeling with the new dispensation and this is in-spite of the recent set back at the world cup.

In reply to Star

Jimmy from the feedback i am getting a lot of people in the region having buyers' remorse