SACK Pollard as captain

Feb 22, 2022 Letters

Dear Sir,

The recent performance of the West Indies team in their one day and T20 series against India in India recently can only be described as pathetic by West Indian fans all over the world. It was so painful and hurtful to watch West Indies losing games when they were in good positions to win those games, especially in the T20 series. In this missive l would like to focus on the T20 series, seeing that the T20 world cup is just a few months away in Australia.
West Indies should have won that series 2-1, the second and third matches and I want to submit that the loss was due squarely to the poor captaincy of Kieron Pollard. In the second match how on earth a team can lose by 8 runs with 7 wickets in hand, yet Pollard came in when all was lost and block 3 balls. In the third match, up to the 15 over West Indies had a game to win and somehow India got 86 runs in the last 5 overs. Sheppard was taking a pounding, yet Pollard bowl him his full 4 overs and Allen only bowl 1 over for 7 runs although he knew the wicket was helping the spinners as can be seen by the excellent figures of Chase and Walsh. Even in the chase, as captain Pollard contribution was poor. In fact, I can’t recall when was the last time Pollard won a match for the West Indies. And it will be interesting to know the stats of Pollard as a batsman since he became captain.
I would now like to call on our own Ramnaresh Sarwan to convince his fellow selector Desmond Haynes to sack Pollard when they sit to pick the next T20 squad and choose Pooran as the captain and Hetmyer as the vice-captain. King, Myers, Hope and Bravo should also be dropped. If West Indies hope to do well at the upcoming T20 world cup or at least be competitive then the squad should read as follow: 1) Pooran capt. 2) Hetmyer vice capt. 3) Evin Lewis 4) Chanderpaul Hemraj 5) Rovman Powell 6) Sherfane Rutherford 7) Jason Holder 8) Odean Smith 9) Romario Sheppard 10) Fabian Allen 11) Akeal Hossein 12) Sheldon Cottrell 13) Jaden Seales 14) Gudakesh Motie 15) Alzarri Joseph. Motie selection might raise eyebrows, but I want to submit that he is a better bowler than Hossein and if given a chance will perform far better than Hossein. Hossein is only playing because of Pollard, his club mate and countryman. The reason I selected Seales and Joseph is because the world cup will be played in Australia on fast and bouncy wickets.
Editor, if the selectors pick this squad, I guarantee the West Indies will win the T20 world cup in Australia. The ball is now in your court Ronnie and Desi. Step up to the plate and help bring back the glory days of West Indies cricket.
Yours Faithfully,
Imtiaz Baccus

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