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In reply to anthonyp

3-0 . that batting will be steam rolled by australia. but i don't think anybody cares anymore so

No DaSilva and Roach.

They mentioned about Roach in the press release.. but nothing on DaSilva.

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In reply to anthonyp

Has King really made a case to be selected for test?
Maybe I haven’t been following the happenings!
Just a query! You all don’t kill me!

Motie?

Very poor...Silva non inclusion....Sammy can't handle strong individuals.....Pooran,Silva,counting

In reply to StumpCam

neither has hope.

In reply to Jumpstart

Is this one King of a Hope???

In reply to natty_forever

In reply to anthonyp

Why couldn't Johnson Charles make this team?

In reply to SnoopDog

i don't know. obviously performance wasn't the highest criterion

In reply to StumpCam

Yes, he did make a case; many, many years ago. CWI is sup'n else. he is nowhere near that form nor ability now and it will take a miracle to adjust to more than a few overs batting. It will be much harder to quality int'l bowling.

Likely the end of roach hope and king are suprises

In reply to anthonyp

no Jos Da Silva and Alick Athanaze and Hodge
wow

I told Narper that DaSilva’s international career for WI is done.

He insisted that Josh would be named in the test squad.

When Sammy have it out for you……that’s it for you in this era.

With Warrican’s elevation, there’s no room for Motie in the test team.

Not dissimilar to when Sammy was named captain in all formats, that was the immediate end of Dwayne Bravo’s test career despite Sammy being a much lower calibre player than Bravo in any format.

Hodge kinda only it to get the axe IMO

Athanaze did himself no favours.

In reply to imusic

demolition man from the dot. i don't think that people realize results are a secondary concern for Julius....it can always be answered by 'it wasn't meant to be'

In reply to Jumpstart

Somebody now say the squad was selected by ChatGPT

In reply to imusic

ey i die

on a reals. the decomposition of west indies cricket mirrors the decomposition of the Caribbean society. we have really become a people for whom standards of conduct and virtually everything else have eroded to levels that would shock the draws off anybody who died before the year 2000. that caribbean governments are never alarmed when most of the region fails csec maths and english is proof.

In reply to Jumpstart

The Caribbean population
has now merged into the citizenry of the Americas.. Our culture is under attack

In reply to allan

our culture is dead. 2000s cable television and poor parenting saw to that

In reply to SnoopDog

I'm just as surprised as you... Charles deserves to be in this squad.

Could imagine de look on Starc face after bowling the first ball of the test match and seeing an almighty cow lash from Ray Charles... most likely he will miss but yuh can't blame him for not trying

In reply to anthonyp

Listen Bro. If Ray lash up Starc for a few overs and beat him off his line and length I would say "mission accomplished" Dubya style.

Fark Sammy and West Indies cricket...I done.

In reply to SnoopDog

2 day test match when WI bat first
3 day test match when OZ bat first

In reply to Narper

So it's already decided. Win toss and bowl.

In reply to allan

Yep, Look like they got rid of the Dominicans. No Kavem Hodge either. No Motie.
What has Brandon King done to get a place in this team? Nothing Earth shattering.
I thought Shai Hope was not interested in test cricket.
We also cannot count on runs from Imlach. I

I think DaSilva should have made the team on performance in the last regional series of games. He sure as hell did better than King and Campbell.

It looks like Sammy and the selectors chose along Party lines and applied the DOGE effect.

In reply to anthonyp

What?? No Motie?? LOL

In reply to Batbeforepad

Motie career almost over... soon lose his place in the limited overs.

Warrican will be taking his spot

So here's de batting stats for CWI test batsmen in the last 12 months... how de hell yuh could justify dropping Hodge and Athanaze and on the other hand retain Kraigg and Louis?

Batting stats - last 12 months

In reply to anthonyp

No wonder Slippy not advocating for Captain Kirk! Him gone to outer space!

In reply to anthonyp

chatgpt does sometimes make analytical errors

In reply to imusic

they were wrong it was by ChatDotissh

In reply to anthonyp

So they left out McKenzie, the only batsman who handled Australian bowlers last year, while selecting batsmen who failed last year against Australia, including Braithwaite (average 8.0 runs); Greaves 17.0 runs; and Hope who is essentially a failed test player. So, who is the batsman to score runs for West Indies?
Anyway, I did predict that Campbell and King will be opening for WI, not because they wanted Yardies but opening against Australia is a career-ending position, both Braithwaite and Chanderpaul averaged under 8.0 runs during that tour. Many thought that I was just slipping

In reply to anthonyp

With those stats, why is the West Indies playing Australia?

In reply to XDFIX

Humiliation or embarrassment, choose one!

In reply to anthonyp

Concept of CWI........like most successful test playing nations...India, Australia, South Africa,New Zealand, England....the core team of test,ODI& T-20 is same... with 4-5 players addon..... it's an attempt in imitate....8 tests...3 Australia,2India,3 N.Z. ........from 25 th effect of wholesale changes,.....

In reply to velo

No surprises....CWI awarded multi-years all formats contracts to both...

In reply to Slipfeeler

The man averages 16 in tests, give it up

In reply to Slipfeeler

I choosing both.

Consider this.

The team currently playing South Africa A team, harbors nine of the selected players for the test squad.
This team was beaten badly in the one day games, lost by an innings in the "first test" and on course to lose the second by at least seven wickets.
If these guys cannot perform against an A team that currently has no representation on the South Africa senior side, I dread to see what is coming up against Australia.

This is by far the weakest team to represent the West Indies.
Hopefully Seales and company will keep them in the game.
Big sigh.

In reply to embsallie

Any Test selection should surely take into consideration performances in the recent four-day competition....

Josh da Silva - 583 runs @ average of 65
Kevlon Anderson - 573 runs @ 72
Jahmar Hamilton - 573 runs @ 57.30
Tevin Imlach - 538 runs @ 67
John Campbell - 517 runs @ 47
Jonathan Drakes - 515 runs @ 47
Mikyle Louis - 429 runs @ 39
Kavem Hodge - 314 runs @ 31
Keacy Carty - 313 runs @ 31
Brandon King - 242 runs @ 30
Alick Athanaze - 231 runs @ 29
Roston Chase - 174 runs @ 58
Shai Hope - 36 runs @ 18

I don't see what Carty, King or Hope have done to deserve selection to the Test side ahead of da Silva, Hamilton or Drakes. It seems Sammy and co are basing their Test selections on performances in ODIs. That's a flawed process, because there's a world of a difference between batting in Test cricket and batting in limited overs cricket.

Disgraceful what has been done to Dasilva. Why would any player want to do well in the local 4 day if your contribution is ignored for journeymen who want the to only play when against fashionable teams.
Besides that, the balance looks all wrong now that Chase is captain.
Cannot justify him replacing Greaves in the team.

In reply to mikesiva

Don't worry, the dumbass coach/emperor/skipper will be gone by the end of the year.

In reply to Conorboy

He should pack up and leave for the UK if he can. It must be a total demotivation to continue playing in the region.

Curiously I have not seen a post or heard from VOR on this selection for the Test.

Kavem and Alick are out and guys like King and Hope are in for reasons I do not quite comprehend.

Is it because Sammy is head coach and part of the selection committee?

In reply to WIForever

why?? (he asked innocently)

In reply to StumpCam

Those stats are skewed, they deliberately omitted the Australian tour earlier in the year, for obvious reasons that many batsmen, including those currently selected to face Australia demonstrated extremely poor performances and skewed against McKenzie, one of the only batsmen to stand up against the hostile Australian bowlers.

In reply to Slipfeeler

Earlier this year? That was in January 2024. We are in June 2025. 18 months back.

In reply to allan

The influx of Americanism has ruined the culture of the Caribbean nations. As a result bling, and money are now the most important things for the younger generations.

In reply to Slipfeeler
so that should guarantee him a spot a year and a half later after doing nothing after that?

In reply to velo

I’m surprised he doesn’t get it at all

In reply to cricketmad

What was the motivation for the entire West Indies team abandoning West Indies to go and play Packer cricket?

What was the motivation for Gary Sobers to ignore world wide condemnation and sanctions and go and play double wicket in Rhodesia?

In reply to cricketmad

That's very well put.

In reply to Slipfeeler

Do you know that capt. Kirk batted a wonderful 7.00in England.
Let him play 1st class cricket with the A teams.

In reply to Jumpstart

Doesn't matter who is selected to bat steam rolling will happen, you can select any batting combination from any franchise

AUSTRALIA IS STRONGER THAN THE WEST INDIES
Expect to be beaten unless God in heaven intervenes and allows someone to perform above their strength like Shamar Joseph did