Who is Gilon Tyson?

He’s selected on the 3 A teams against South Africa.

I also didn’t know Darel Cyrus but when I looked him up, I saw he’s a leg break bowler and lord knows we need wrist spinners in our teams so if that’s why he was selected, I have no issue with that.

But don’t know anything about Tyson expect his stats are pretty average. Think he ONCE took a 5 fer.

But what is he? Bowler? Batter? All Rounder? Wicketkeeper?

If a bowler, seam bowler or spinner?

Who is Gilon Tyson and why is he selected in the 3 A teams?

In reply to imusic

He was selected to knock out the competition!
Perhaps another Castro!

In reply to StumpCam

Well if he’s another Castro aka Fidel Edwards, he will be one of the best selections in WI cricket

We can hope

In reply to imusic

He is a pace bowler. Big and stocky like Shannon and has good pace. Hails from Dominica which is becoming a powerhouse of Windwards cricket. Same island as AThanaze and Kavem Hodge.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1118212236082205

In reply to voiceofreason

Thanks vor. Knew nothing of him. He must have impressed them tremendously for him to be included in all 3 squads

In eight First Class matches, Gillon Tyson, has 32 wickets at an average of 22 with best figures of 7 for 86 along with two five wicket hauls.

Those numbers are impressive so one would think he deserves his pick.

Of course many of our players do well in First Class cricket so we'll just have to wait and see if he can take his game to the next level.

Wonder what happened to Anderson Phillips?

Now all of a sudden this Tyson chap leapfrog him.. guess we dealing with a special talent.

In reply to anthonyp

Correction

Guess we are dealing with a non trini

Those are always better on the West Indies teams

In reply to anthonyp


Not Sammy's guy

In reply to imusic

Sammy's men are doing very well against the 12th ranked team in the world.

In reply to imusic

Well Sammy is the head scout for the Region.. So ah guess he hand picked Tyson.

Anderson is not big and stocky like Shannon so I could understand why he didn't impress the head scout

If I remember correctly Anderson Philip and Jayden Seales left during the First Class season to play county cricket in England.

In reply to Fivestar

And Seales was recalled to play ODI

Nothing stopping Anderson from being recalled too

Anderson will never play agsin under Sammy

In reply to pariaman

I hope you're wrong, players should be picked based on performance.

In reply to Fivestar

What we are seeing here is a sideline of players who are not Sammy's men

This was the risk of making the head coach the only selector

Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind

Fans should be questioning Oshane Thomas' selection, after about 6 years on the regional scene, this year was the first time he took a 5-fer in first class cricket, I think Smith from Guyana is a better bowler. However, Tyson is good, he has pace and he swings the ball

In reply to Fivestar

[quote]I hope you're wrong, players should be picked based on performance.[/quote]

By sammy? Surely you jest.

In reply to Fivestar

Well they may. Avg 22, excellent season.

In reply to JoeGrine

Wrong slash \

In reply to dayne

Finally a level-headed Poster. Imagine Oshame still gets picked after a mediocre R4D, yet they bawling Sammy dis and Sammy dat.

Marquino Mindley had a better season than Anderson Phillip. He is not express paced so he is competing with bowlers of the same ilk.

In reply to voiceofreason

Because you know you do not fit that bill.

In reply to dayne

Selected based on that improvement shown. You cannot teach pace. I guess there are saying. Let's see if he continues on this improvement.

In reply to imusic

This season 4-day regional was different in the sense.....First half of the tournament was played with Kookaburra balls and last leg with Duke.......the decision was reasonable..... As Indian and N.Z. both use Kookaburra balls....West Indies tour impending.....

First half saw, several big hundreds....all bowlers, including test bowlers faltered.....

This lad Tyson did well throughout.....both with Kookaburra and Duke.....so I assume he got maximum points.....got selected in all formats....

Cyrus....leg break with good googly....a rarity in Caribbean cricket....has taken 3- fifers......@27...but maybe because of his ability to bowl both leg break and googly...

Well looks like Sammy boy got an opportunity.. not a bad start to his WI A team career.. top figures this

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Shannon 2.0... minus the pace. The struggle to reach to the bowling crease is the same though