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Harper: More world class players needed

Chairman of the West Indies selection panel, Roger Harper, believes that to be successful going forward and to compete with the best teams in the world, the West Indies need to have top-level players in all formats of the game at present. Harper was speaking on Isports on i95.5fm with host Andre Errol Baptiste on Saturday.

He said, “We need to have World Class players in our West Indies teams, players who will compete in terms of performance and in terms of the world teams and that is how our cricket and our teams will get to the top of the pile. If we have several World Class players in the team giving us World Class performances consistently.

"If you are just making 30 and the press is clamouring that he deserves a try, I would like my job to be easy so if you making 30 and the other guy is making 31, then I have to try and decide who is better but if you are averaging 60 or 70, then all I have to do is write your name down, you are picking yourself and that is what we have to encourage our players to do, think bigger, aim higher and think of putting in World Class performances to match with World Class players.”

With that mindset back in the day, Harper would not have ever made it to international cricket

he is stating the obvious problem but no solution

In reply to imusic
You have beaten me to it,funny thing is that statement about "world class"has been used against spinners mainly,Harper was never world class but played 25 tests for 45 wickets.They tried to make a bowler out of him.
He had nuff chances.