Is WI cricket the homie hookup now

I noticed, and have noticed that virtually the entire back room staff of St Lucia Kings, is the Back room staff of the West Indies team(m). I could be wrong but to me that’s a conflict of interest, especially when the WI have endured their most humiliating home season in almost 100 years of being a full member of the ICC and there are widespread appeals for changes

In reply to Jumpstart

The coach of tkr baby brother in the team....

In reply to conman

tkr is not wi cricket

In reply to Jumpstart

I still don't understand the gripe

In reply to Jumpstart

It certainly is a conflict of interest but WI cricket has always been homie first!!!

How quickly you forget Simmons & Polly had the entire Trini Team playing ODI cricket lol

It’s no wonder why Hettie said bun this after they were picking Jason Mohammed over him lol

In reply to Jumpstart

Correct question is, is the CPL, Kings see it working for West Indies, so why not for us.

In reply to WIfan26


if the best players are trinis, i see no problem. The wt20 side that won the the tournament in 2012 had 8 trinidadians out of the 15 players we sent to the tournament. the 2014 tourney had 6, the 2016 edition had 5, all of which played in every match with the exception of evin lewis. Conversely, the players from the 2015 world cup, the 2019 world cup and most of the tourneys in between got opportunities and failed miserably. the 2015 and 2019 world cups have been the two worst tournaments in terms of results for any west indian side in the tournament's history. Clearly, the players they were playing were not good enough. the two exceptions in that entire four year period were the the 2016 tri series following the world cup, where the west indies unexpectedly reached the final in a series containing australia and south africa, and the 2019 england odi series which preceded the world cup. And they only are exceptions until you look at the personnel who got us into winning positions in those seres. in 2016, the first game vs sa in guyana, sunil narine took 6/27 to clean up SA for 188. Kieron pollard guided the chase with 67 not out as the WI won by four wickets on a difficult pitch. Marlon samuels then scored 92 to guide the WI to a win over the Aussies chasing 265. He also scored 125 versus the same team with Denesh Ramdin scoring 91, but we lost. the next win saw darren bravo scoring a flat 100 as the WI made 285, with Shannon Gabriel blowing away thee SA top order with 3/17. In the 2019 england odi series, chris gayle scored 424 runs in 5 games at the age of 39 as wi drew the series. None off those players lost their place under Pollard and Simmons. Samuels was dropped after 2018 despite braving an injured back to help WI qualify for the 2019 tournament. Who yuh wanted pollard to pick: rajindra chandrika(who ramdin was saddled with during the australian series in 2015), ashley nurse, RTN, chanderpaul hemraj, keemo paul, jonathan carter.....who pollard didn't pick who should have gotten a chance....nonsense as ussual

In reply to Jumpstart

Anybody except Darren Bravo & Jason Mohammed in modern ODI cricket!!!

They only pick from their homie club like 2021 T20 WC team remember 55???

Not to mention why is Darren Bravo playing in front of Joshua Da Silva???

Pariaman crying out over his drop everyday and his own team won’t give him a chance to prove he belongs!!!

In reply to WIfan26

Darren Bravo versus Sri Lanka in 2021 ODI Series



yes...the same plyers involved in the 2012 and 2016 world cup wins. i see nothing wrong with that ''


Darren Bravo playing in front of Joshua Da Silva in west indies cricket? well that is news to me. you have to ask darren sammy why the second highest run scorer in the WI FC tournament(Joshua Michael Da Silva) is nowhere near a west indies team that last test innings was 27. The first, the same jason mohammed yuh maligning was the top scorer. Both still can't make the team after 27 all out. the last thing i remember is that they were both being not picked by Sammy......da silva unable to make the team after being the 2nd highest scorer in the wi four day championship, and darren bravo after being the top run getter in the 2023 super 50.....again, outta here with that nonsense

In reply to Jumpstart

Darren bravo strikes at 70 in ODI give me a break LOL

If the great coach Bravo won’t pick him why would Sammy lol

I will admit with chest though bro T&T have produced the best white ball players but just like the WI there was no succession planning and when the talent ran out there was no answers and the best were too busy making money to teach the youths!!!

In reply to WIfan26

marlon samuels SR in odis was 75......and he helped the west indies win many games. you really don't know about cricket. both are not bashers so i would not expert them to have SRs over 100

In reply to Jumpstart

HUH???

Shivnarine Chanderpaul striked at 70 and won more games than any of those guys tf is your point lol

Modern ODI requires a strike rate of way more than 75 bro c’mon you can’t be that disingenuous

With that logic you must be Shai Hope’s biggest supporter then

In reply to WIfan26

exactly genius.....they all play the same role to anchor an innings while the more aggressive batsmen attack. Shai hope's SR is 79.....again, anchoring the innings while the big hitters attack. our most successful ODI batsman. Christopher Henry Gayle, has a SR of 87. as i tell yuh, you really expect his SR to be the same as if its a t20? clearly, you don't know the game

In reply to Jumpstart

A strike of 87 in Gayle’s time would equal 120 now ding dong lol

MODERN ODI requires a much greater strike rate!!!

Virat Kohli is the same age as Bravo and strikes at 93 what role does he play???

In reply to WIfan26

Gayle's last odi was in 2019 yuh dunce. that's only 6 years ago





an excellent comparison comparing a dude who has played 302 ODI matches to a guy who has only been picked for 56. .

In reply to Jumpstart

HAHAHAHA I thought you were boasting Trinidad has the best education system my God you can’t be that dense

I suggest you beg Dr. Dukes for a math lesson lol

Gayle Look at his strike rates after 2012

Do you think Kohli would play so many ODI’s if he struck as 70???

In reply to WIfan26

yeah....and...gayle sr was 89 in 2012, 85 in 2013,barely played in 2014, 116 in 2015, based almost solely on an odi double ton vs zimbabwe in the world cup and a 63 vs new zealand in 33 balls in a 400 run chase, his only notable scores for the year. he didn't played in 2016, barely played in 2017, played nine games 2018, scoring at just above his career SR at 94. its only in 2019 did he really bat outside of his career SR for a consistent period of time...17 games at 119

https://www.howstat.com/cricket/statistics/Players/PlayerYears_ODI.asp?PlayerID=2217

rohit sharma's SR is 92 by the way. even a finisher par excellence like ms dhoni had a strike rate of 87.

In reply to Jumpstart



PS Darren Bravo has played 122 ODI’s if he was better he would’ve played a lot more!!!

Dude all your doing is proving my point especially if Gayle missed 3 years of ODI’s lol

Rohit, Dhoni, etc. all started in an era where 200 and 120 runs would win you an ODI and T20 respectively!!!

In these times 300 is a par score in an ODI do you still think someone striking anywhere below 90 is helpful to a team???

In reply to WIfan26
300 HAS BEEN THE PAR SCORE FOR A DECADE.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Cricket_World_Cup
joe root was the top scorer for england in the 2019 world cup. his strike rate is 87. kane williamson, an essential part of any new zealand team has a strike rate of 81. even a similar type basher like david warner, who scored the 2nd highest amount of runs in that world cup finished the tournament with a SR of 89. yuh not making any sense breds

In reply to Jumpstart

A trying to understand myself.

In reply to Jumpstart

Kane Williamson is shocking but he also plays for a top team with a brilliant bowling attack!!!

Joe Root was playing at home and one would never consider him a top ODI player!!!

David Warner has a career strike rate of 97

Dude just stay on the original topic the only reason Darren Bravo played ODI in recent times is because of the “homie hookup” lol

That 23/24 season was played in his backyard in Tauroba and not once did T&T pass 300!!! It wasn’t Sammy that said no it was Avenash because stats don’t lie a career strike rate of 70 is useless in ODI’s now!!!

In reply to Jumpstart


Modern version of the UB Friendies.

In reply to Drapsey

When did captains have total control over who was picked???

In reply to WIfan26


BS as usual. Kane Williamson started in a very ordinary side. A team that lost a WC quarterfinal in 2011 by ten wickets. A team that was defeated in an ODI series in the WI the next year, a format which was the WI’s weakest suit. That they became a super power by the time the next World Cup came around is in large part due to the efforts of Baz McCullum and himself. Joe Root was surrounded by power hitters( Hales, Jason Roy, Ben Stokes, Eoin Morgan etc). But stroke makers still have a role in the game. Somebody needs to anchor the innings.

In reply to Jumpstart

I still feel anchoring an innings in MODERN ODI doesn’t exist maybe it’ll come back with the new rule of just using one ball at end we’ll have to wait and see!!!