WHAT IS DA SILVA'S CRIME?WHY THE SILENCE?

This is the reason our players go to the IPL and other leagues and dis the vindictive CWI private club. Those big mouth and insular posters here just curse players for making a priority of going where the treatment and wages are better. But they never call out the Employer whom none of them would tolerate or work for.

In reply to bobby

da silva should have got that memo a long time ago. his first order of business needs to be linking up with TKR and start from there. tkr is an audition for the ipl

In reply to Jumpstart

Can he even make the TKR team?

In reply to SnoopDog

we had some passengers last year that didn't do well....paris started off good but him going back to barbados will be no loss to us. mark deyal performed well in one game too so his spot up for grabs as well.

In reply to Jumpstart

Lickit cricket isn't his game.

But if he is serious about lickit he should start training now to become a brain dead cowlasher like our boy Johnson Charles.

In reply to SnoopDog

exactly

In reply to SnoopDog

Canadian team for him now

Glaringly shameful

It was clear when he was not selected for A team games

People just refused to believe it

Josh needs to look towards County Championship as he will never be selected once Sammy is there

In reply to Narper

Does Da Sliva look Indian to you?

People have short memories yes.

Darren Bravo was originally selected to the winning 2016 T20 World Cup and declined selection to focus on red ball cricket. In so doing, he went completely against the trend where players focused their energies on the shortest format of the game.

His reward……discarded by West Indies.

Years later, they said perform in domestic 50 over cricket and that will result in selection to the West Indies ODI team.


What Desmond Haynes and his selection team neglected to say was, even if you top the run scoring and highest batting average stats for the domestic 50
Over competition…….,which Bravo did….this perform in domestic competition and you’ll be selected for WI ODI team DOES NOT APPLY IF YOUR NAME IS DARREN BRAVO!

And then we wonder about the reason when players appear to not prioritize West Indies cricket.

Look how they do Hodge……and Motie……not to mention DaSilva.

They asked Nikhil how come Hodge get drop and he say Sammy want to play an attacking brand of cricket.

Nobody asked de same Nikhil how come then they still select Kraigg Brathwaite even though he performs worse than Hodge and Athanaze?

Simple, Dasilva always showed huge leadership qualities, plainly Scammy could not put up with someone in the group that would have a bigger voice than him.

People stop this nonsense.
Athanaze and Dasilva failed. Simple.

Does Braffit deserves to be dropped too.
Yes, but that does not mean Dasilva did not deserve a drop.

Same for Hodge, Roach and Athanaze.
Darren Bravo non-selection to the ODI team, year before was proper too.
His scoring rate is not good enough for today's standard.
He was selected for the Ozz test tour and declined.

These drops are worthy and justified.
Stop the foolishness.
Can't blame bajans now can you?

In reply to imusic

Since everyone here tries to use the corporate analogy, with regards to CWI and franchises etc, how do you think you would fare if you called your boss an idiot? On a public platform to boot?

His downfall started with that moment of madness. At least Sammy waited for his career to get over before he took on the CWI.

Even IPL bosses don’t take well to such behaviour. KL Rahul was openly involved in a spat with the franchise owner, and promptly signed up for another franchise the next year. He was able to do that because he’s Indian and good enough that most franchises would have bid for him.

DaSilva like some others is responsible for himself not being selected for the Test team, but it seems something is going on behind the scenes that caused him to be excluded from the WI A team against SA. As a Test player, DaSilva was a mediocre batter, wicket/keeper and on observation from first-class games when he was captain, he is not a pro-active captain. However, it would have been appreciated by the fans if the CWI had given an explanation for his absence

In reply to dayne

Why?

To satisfy a bunch a dunces!

Your second sentence explains it all.

Given the current cupboard, Da Silva should have been captain and in the team. Where’s the sports journalists asking questions? The commentators? The analysts? Sammy seemed to have started out with no agendas but now snowballing south.

Real raw deal for Da SIlva

dasilva should have been selected for his batting and leadership alone.
Imlach has failed badly in the A team so no reason to go with him.

In reply to dayne

Not proactive, are you serious.
Watched him captain the A team in SA and I thought he was tremendous.
Got the very best out of what was on paper a very mediocre group against what was a SA team that was a lot stronger than the one currently in the Caribbean
Think about the last test victory over OZ , it was made possible by a great, dogged stand between Hodge and Josh, both now dropped.
Supported by Shamar who would not have even been selected only for his form in the mentioned A tour of SA while under the guidance of Josh.
Proactive, please don't insult him anymore.

In reply to Conorboy

i was wondering which daSilva, Dayne was referring to. The man got the best out of TT team for almost 2 decades, won the new tournament, was second highest run getter even though he played one match less than top scorer. He did everything he had to do but was still found not to be good enough. Same as Bravo a couple years ago.

In reply to brians_da_best

In the corporate world if you can prove that the sole reason you were demoted and or received a pay cut was because your boss lied on you and worse did so publicly you'd win a lawsuit get a large compensation and still keep your job. Cut Di Crap missa Brians da bessest.

In reply to jacksparrow

Perhaps they know something about this issue that the regular posters are not aware of. Isn't it interesting that the people who should be asking questions including the TTCB have all been silent.

DaSilva has been excluded because he’s not the head coach’s choice. That simple.

Sammy is not the first and won’t be the last person in charge that has preferences for his people. It happens every day in the corporate world.

If DaSilva’s goal is to be a professional cricketer, he needs to focus on giving himself as many options as possible to achieve that goal.

West Indies cricket is not in his immediate future. The complete and apparent willful absence of any communication from CWI on this issue is evidence of that.

Thankfully in this day and age, there are other options. He seems like a smart young man. I would not be surprised if he is exploring and focusing on maximizing his potential to utilize those options.

By the way cowardly Sammy did not wait for his career to be over before criticizing Cameron. In fact, it was that criticism that hastened his Int'l retirement.
He criticized Dave after 2016 T20 Championship finals and retired in 2017. The craven, cowardly Sammy not only hid from bowling but also at Hilaire's prompting refused to travel to JA to captain a FC match because Gayle was playing. But even worse hid from Ramnarine, his team, union and colleagues who wanted him to attend their annual function...again at the prompting of Union Buster Hilaire.

I am truly amazed at the lengths men are willing to go to twist themselves into pretzels to try and defend the indefensible nonsense of CWI!