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Yes, now that we have someone we can look at and call him our able spearhead, we do have the potential. Rampaul has been bowling well domestically and all we need is Roach back at his best again. An attack comprising of Taylor-Roach-Rampaul-Narine-Sammy/Bravo/Russell-Holder looks quite good. I also think we need to find a regular place for Simmons. He is a fine bloke able to change gears and can be perfect #3. Marlon is a simple batsman but with more aggressiveness in batting so he can be at #4. I hope WICB and WIPA solve out there issues and we can see both Bravo and Pollard back in again.I am really pleased to see Jerome Taylor back to his best. Quality player and the Windies need some good pace bowlers again. Got the makings of a good attack.
Brendan gets a rough one but that will make the case for Miller even worse. Miller is bowling as if he was never an international material which is far from truth.
Yes, now that we have someone we can look at and call him our able spearhead, we do have the potential. Rampaul has been bowling well domestically and all we need is Roach back at his best again. An attack comprising of Taylor-Roach-Rampaul-Narine-Sammy/Bravo/Russell-Holder looks quite good. I also think we need to find a regular place for Simmons. He is a fine bloke able to change gears and can be perfect #3. Marlon is a simple batsman but with more aggressiveness in batting so he can be at #4. I hope WICB and WIPA solve out there issues and we can see both Bravo and Pollard back in again.
According to me, the best team would be:
ODI
Dwayne Smith
Chris Gayle
Darren Bravo
Lendl Simmons
Marlon Samuels
Dwayne Bravo
Kieron Pollard
Ravi Rampaul
Sunil Narine
Jerome Taylor
Kemar Roach
Test (Beyond Chanders)
Kraigg Brathwaite
Chris Gayle/Adrian Barath
Leon Johnson
Darren Bravo
Marlon Samuels
Jermaine Blackwood
Denesh Ramdin
Jerome Taylor
Kemar Roach
Sulieman Benn
Fidel Edwards/Shannon Gabriel
Why let Simmons keep in ODIs when Ramdin is fine there? Russell got to be in their somewhere for sre
Not sure about Johnson as a international player, would be more inclined to look at Jason Mohammed and i'm sure Edwards days as a test bowler are over. Holder, Cummins, Beaton certainly ahead of him.
Somebody needs to get Barath back playing cricket and scoring runs, serious little talent just going to waste.
Barath is not even breaking into the T&T team. Not sure exactly what went wrong but I have noticed that he started goin downhill after IPL 1, possibly the 60 he made in one of those games at IPL 1 has messed him up.
Agreed Edwards is more or less done and dusted.
Brendan gets a rough one but that will make the case for Miller even worse. Miller is bowling as if he was never an international material which is far from truth.
Yes, now that we have someone we can look at and call him our able spearhead, we do have the potential. Rampaul has been bowling well domestically and all we need is Roach back at his best again. An attack comprising of Taylor-Roach-Rampaul-Narine-Sammy/Bravo/Russell-Holder looks quite good. I also think we need to find a regular place for Simmons. He is a fine bloke able to change gears and can be perfect #3. Marlon is a simple batsman but with more aggressiveness in batting so he can be at #4. I hope WICB and WIPA solve out there issues and we can see both Bravo and Pollard back in again.
According to me, the best team would be:
ODI
Dwayne Smith
Chris Gayle
Darren Bravo
Lendl Simmons
Marlon Samuels
Dwayne Bravo
Kieron Pollard
Ravi Rampaul
Sunil Narine
Jerome Taylor
Kemar Roach
Test (Beyond Chanders)
Kraigg Brathwaite
Chris Gayle/Adrian Barath
Leon Johnson
Darren Bravo
Marlon Samuels
Jermaine Blackwood
Denesh Ramdin
Jerome Taylor
Kemar Roach
Sulieman Benn
Fidel Edwards/Shannon Gabriel
I now remember that Barath had actually asked to take a break from cricket before the start of this WICB domestic season.
Chris Gayle's 215 against Zimbabwe was a mighty innings. Made off 147 balls with a record-equaling 16 sixes and abetted by 10 fours, it bespeaks a festival of power-hitting that is stunning even by today's standards. As he sometimes does, he began tentatively, and was, in fact, fortunate to survive a huge LBW shout that could have gone either way.
He had gone 19 ODI innings and 19 months without a hundred and there was a lot of talking, tweeting, and retweeting one by none other than West Indies Board President (WICB) Dave Cameron, who unwisely propagated a message from a fan stating that Gayle, in light of his most recent failure against Pakistan, should be offered a retirement package.
After his mammoth innings, Gayle seemed to suggest he used the incident, as well as unprecedented good wishes from fans, as motivation. "This is the first time since I've been playing international cricket that I have received so many messages," he said. "It felt like even my enemy wanted me to do well." And so there was rejoicing in the Caribbean and from Chris Gayle fans everywhere; the game's mightiest blade was back.
But was it really? Did his record-breaking innings mark a return to form or was it the last big snowstorm of a dying winter?
Jason Holder: 'West Indies could be up there in five years' | Cricket | ESPN Cricinfo
Got a lot of Graeme Smith vibes reading that, very well spoken, maybe this baptism by fire could prove just as effective. However, I don't necessarily agree with the 5 year projection of his, or Curtly Ambrose' 15 years, has to be somewhere in the middle.