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Could Royston Crandon avoid the One-day Bogey?

Aug 25, 2009 Sports

Congratulations to Rose Hall Town Sports Club, Berbice and Guyana All-Rounder Royston Crandon on his elevation to the  West Indies One-day Squad for  ICC Champion Trophy in South Africa next month.
The pugnacious opener who is also a capable off spinner is the first Guyanese since Regional one day cricket began in 1976 to score a century on debut and relishes the shorter version of the game.   Crandon from a Guyana perspective was only upstaged by Narsingh Deonarine in this year Regional First Class Tournament despite being surprisingly left out for a few games and closed the season in style with his maiden first-class century against Barbados at Providence.
But as Crandon’s journey to the Safari to combat his biggest mission, the robust opener should be cognizant of his predecessors who blazed the trail for the Region at the One-Day International level but failed to gain a Test cap. Milton Pydanna (1981-83), Barrington Browne (1994), Keith Semple (1999) Leon Johnson (2008).
So even if his selection was mainly due to the industrial action taken by the senior players, Crandon possess the class, style and courage to wear the maroon cap, but the big question is could he proceed beyond that?   He silenced is doubters with a consistent regional first class season earlier this year but this time the script and actors are different.
Azeemul Haniff is the other Guyanese who was selected on a West Indies One-Day tour when he went with the West Indies squad for tournaments in Pakistan and Kenya in (2000) but failed to earn an ODI Cap.
Charwayne Walker

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