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Don't end up Captaining the west Indies sometime in the future. Instead of smoking mi spliffs i gwan start eating it.
Sensible bwoy dat..

Is he gine replace Kraigg as the opener on WI Test team?

Good promising cricketer...needs to work on his fitness tho!

In reply to BeatDball if Hetty Captain the Windies team before Joshua De Silva would be a travesty.

In reply to NineMiles

If you follow his you tube channel he's working on that fitness ting.

Fella looks fit - no big belly; has a flat belly! What alyuh talking about!?

In reply to NineMiles

Works harder than most of them shit hounds

Last cricketer i saw like that from a young age was Jimmy Adams in his first test match. Knew he was gonna Captain the Windies from his debut test match. You just notice heavy common sense under pressure.
If Brian Lara's ego never so big he would have pushed Adams before him and have a longer career and much more runs. Some people just look the part. De Silva certainly does.

In reply to Raggs & WIForever


Its just the way he was continuing to get out of breath...after facing something like 30 deliveries.

He's explanation right now is it is very hot out there and not much breeze about.

Hope he has a great career representing WI.

Good luck to the kid!

In reply to Raggs

Nonsense.... do you remember Jimmy's batting in Eng and AUS in 2000?

And I like Adams.... spoken to him many a times when he was at Lashings!

In reply to Raggs

Dem kinda look alike too, don't they?

In reply to Raggs
OK,nice words for De Silva,let's hope he doesn't end up like Stephen Camacho and Charlie Davis.

He ready for the Test and ODI team. I hope pick him in the XI when West Indies next play.

In reply to NineMiles

Noticed that..

Once he improves that he should be fine heard he is working on his fitness so.. give it time

Couldn't help but crack up though... he is what 11 years younger than Ramdin

In reply to Raggs


Furthermore, it had nothing to do with Lara. Was WI internal politics which pushed Pooper to takeover from Adams!

Here we go... One good innings and he's ready to take over Captaincy and all sorts lmao. And apparently he's the most hard working WI player because his fitness journey is on a YouTube channel. I mean other players just don't work hard right, just because they don't put it all over YouTube dwl!

Old men in rum shops sure need something... infact not much at all...to occupy their evident boredom....

He will sort out that weakness deh. In the middle of the lockdown he hired a personal trainer online to work with.
Ian Bishop said he lived near he and saw him jogging 4 am in the morning during the lockdown.
Hetty might be earmarked for the captaincy and he braincells kinda funny. I would advice the selectors to pencil Joshua in for the job and get him in the team pronto.

In reply to granite

In reply to NineMiles

Adams prior to the blow to his head was a certain fit for captaincy. A better fit that Brain Lara.
Why you think Shane Warne never get that job though he craved it.

In reply to Raggs

Not the same situation. Lara was groomed for WI leadership and had Joey Carew for support.

Warnie had a bad boy image and so the captaincy went to Ponting instead.

It's not for Lara to push Adams for the captaincy....there are higher powers within Windies cricket that make those decision...and plenty of politricks as we all know!

Too early to talk about DaSilva being a WI captain, first lets see how he does in the regionals.

Pooran and de Silva both w/keepers,both can play test cricket purely as batsmen.

In reply to dayne
They must be mad to be talking about de Silva as a future WI captain after one goodish regional season,even worst is talking about captaining the team,if he becomes TTs captain and is a successful captain at that,for example like Ganga was then maybe.Personally I don't think it would happen.

I have been very impressed with how Da Silva has played Rashid Khan in his first match and how he has played Imran Tahir in this match. Two of the best spin bowlers on the world and he played them well. That says alot about the young man at this stage of his career. Let's hope he is given the chance to develop. I like what I see.

In reply to b4u8me2
You have said it,"give him some time to develop",that's the way it should be done.

In reply to Raggs

You know Natty dont need no encouragement to clamour for a trini wicket-keeper to be captain.

In reply to Raggs now you elevating him to be a future wi captain based on what ? don't even know if the man has the goods to be a test cricketer yet

In reply to velo

can't you not see something in someone and let take a pun on it? Chris Blackwell looked at Bob Marley gave him over 4,000 pounds in the year 1972.To go back to Jamaica to make an album.

Loads of money those days, everyone around him said that money would never be returned, dead money. Just on a hutch, but he saw something others couldn't, just a feeling ok.

In reply to Raggs

And where better to have such feelings, but a rum shop.

In reply to natty_forever

Your sarcasm will get you in serious trouble one day..

In reply to velo

I know two other persons who were talked about as being captain of the West Indies before they even played test cricket.
Stephen Camacho and Robin Bynoe.

GO FIGURE IT OUT!!!!!!!!

In reply to Dukes

Evan Brendon Nash after those.

Ok, not before playing test, but shortly after.

Colonialism in reverse. We mentally triggered up on the cotton tree in our thoughts. The man is Trini boned and ya see weh de convo gone..Ah well.

In reply to Raggs

So Raggs, you haven't yet spotted the pattern?

Well, I alluded to it from my first post on page 1. Go check it out.

In reply to Drapsey

me kinda colour blind to it so never ketch that hint. just like the way the guy adapt his game from his first t20 inning. the vast improvement in his last outing in that format, how he conducted himself so far in everything he's done, even coming on the wicket keep in England as a sub. Seeing what I'm seeing and what Ian Bishop is saying.. I see leadership.

watch how hetty go about things, social media, not learning from mistakes. overweight athlete I don't see him as a test captain of the future, white, high brown or anything else down the colour chart..
that will upset some round these parts.

In reply to Dukes

What? That it is Trinidad's turn?

In reply to FuzzyWuzzy

The thing about Camacho and Bynoe is that it wasn't anonymous people on a message board who were talking about captaincy.
In the case of Camacho it was none other than a former West Indies test player and MANAGER of SUCCESSFUL West Indies teams and I heard him myself.
WRT Bynoe it was an all-time West Indian great batsman who said it in the most NEGATIVE WAY, that all he has to do is get a 50 in a test match and he would be captain.
The reason I am not naming these individuals is because they are both deceased.

In reply to NineMiles His explanation was his stooping is just hs way of taking deep breathing..I dont think is about hs lack of fitness.. of ourse one can always be better.
but in England he batted through an innngs in the first and then not out again in the second.. centuries in the Caribbean tournaments ( both 4 day and one-day) suggests to me he is not as unfit as one may want to think.

In reply to Dukes

Add Kirk Edwards and Shahmar Brooks

In reply to imusic

Bynoe and Camacho were about 22 years old when they were mentioned as is Da Silva.I am sure Kirk Edwards and Brooks were mentioned after they had shown some leadership skills in first class cricket.

Viv wudda be real happy to talk about de Silva back in his time.

In reply to granite

Like how he was happy to talk about Larry Gomes?

In reply to Dukes

lol

Good dodge

In reply to Dukes

Whuh bout ganga?

In reply to FuzzyWuzzy

1.My father's good friend who said it in my presence

2.One of a triumvirate of great WI batsmen


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

In reply to Dukes

I don't think Kirk had shown anything, Brooks however I remember was touted as captain from his teenage years.

Lara actually prolonged Adams' career and helped him through his toughest times,held him up,made him believe.

Raggs you smoking some bad weed breds .

In reply to Andy99

I do not think that Kirk was touted as a future WI captain until his successful start to his test career and his ascendency to the captaincy of Barbados.Brooks was the West Indies Under 19 captain..
Comparing the calls for them to be WI captain to similar calls for DaSilva is ludicrous.

a fine example of captain elect was Mr Brian Charles Lara from under 12 up he was ordained to collect the armband..

In reply to Dukes

Kirk was touted as WI captain after his good start with the WI team, he had no captaincy experience regionally as yet. Anyone can correct me on that, if I'm wrong.
If after this then he was made Barbados regional captain.

Brooks was U19 captain as you said, which is what I was implying when I said he was touted from a young age, I should've been clearer tho.

2011 Dec.


Ryan Hinds was the 2011 captain at the start with Brooks taking over.

In reply to Andy99

Thanks for clarifying this.It is obvious that Brooks as a WI Under 19 captain and Edwards as a successful test player were far more along the path to WI test captaincy when their names were bandied around as possible test captains as opposed to DaSilva who not only never played Under 19 cricket but is in his second full season, having failed in his first.

In reply to Dukes

you are serious, fail what?

In reply to Raggs

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In reply to Dukes

I dare say that there is a first class century amongst that mist.
How many greats get one of those in their 1st first class regional season. Lara? Richards?...

In reply to Raggs

The first season there is no first class century.There is 1 in this season earlier this year.
Just look at the stats.

Oh boy.......