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Have the West Indies selectors hit the panic button?

Jul 17, 2013 Letters


Dear Editor,
The WICB released its squad for the first two ODI’s to be held in Guyana, and surprisingly there is no specialist wicket keeper.
Even if Dinesh Ramdin wasn’t making runs or keeping well, he should have been replaced by another specialist keeper. To entrust such a responsibility on Johnson Charles or even Lendl Simmonds, part-time keepers who are now establishing themselves as competent and reliable batsmen is too risky at this stage of our cricket, and could seriously affect the confidence and competence of young Charles, Simmonds and the rest of the team.
The fact that there is no Guyanese in the 15-man squad is testimony to the sad and depressing state in which Guyana cricket has found itself. Because of the lack of a proper cricket development programmes by the Guyana Cricket Board, especially at the youth level, it seems certain that Guyanese cricketers would not catch the eyes of the Selectors.
Evidence of this can be seen by the extremely poor performance of our youth teams in the regional competitions under the present cricket administration.
Apparently the “powers that be” are afraid to bite the bullet, thereby omitting at least one of the recurring failures in the batting and/or bowling department where we are experiencing most of the problems.
The WICB seems to have hit the panic button, in my view, unnecessarily at this stage.
Claude Raphael

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