ALL eyes will be on the Caribbean cricketers who will be playing later this month in the Regional One-Day tournament.

This is the second year that Guyana will be hosting the Regional tournament and our cricket administrators must be commended for this achievement.

Guyanese in all three counties will be given the opportunity to see our top Caribbean cricketers.

Most important is the fact that our regional cricketers will be given equal opportunities to perform and depending on their performance the West Indies Team will be selected.

Senior Players:-

The makeshift Caribbean team was indeed humiliated against Bangladesh and in the ICC Tournament in South Africa.

The captaincy of Floyd Reifer was a total disgrace while his performance with the bat certainly brought shame to West Indies selectors and the cricket administrators.

Nowhere, in the World would a captain who failed so miserably have been kept in the team. West Indies cricket administrators certainly went “too low” and the record will show that they under-achieved.

Let us hope that the Caribbean team to play in South Africa later this year in the Test and limited overs series will be the best possible team.

Captain:-

Christopher Gayle is certainly in very good form and he is the captain of the strong Jamaican team.

Trinidad and Tobago selectors are yet to name their team and more particularly their captain.

However, the strong Guyana team will certainly be captained by Ramnaresh Sarwan. The West Indies selectors will have to make a decision on the West Indies team captain.

Gayle went overboard and his remarks in England will be against him for serious consideration for the captaincy. Ramdin is young and yet to be named captain of the Trinidad team.

Dwayne Bravo’s remarks of freelancing and not playing for the West Indies team will certainly undermine his chances for playing and captaining the West Indies team.

Ramnaresh Sarwan remains the best possible candidate to captain the West Indies team.

Sarwan is a great batsman in the making. He knows the game. He is the most popular player in the team. Further, he can speak well. Hence, his better approach gives him the edge to be named captain of the team. Sarwan is a senior player who was groomed for the captaincy and must be named captain.

The West Indies team’s batting seems to be world class. Gayle, Sarwan and evergreen Shivnarine Chanderpaul are certainly three world class batsmen.

The all-rounder Dwayne Bravo and Ramesh Ramdin are also very useful batsmen.

The West Indies lower-order batting also looks good. Taylor is more than a useful batsman.

There are also several younger players that can make the team. Young Darren Bravo, Lendl Simmons and Narsingh Deonarine are three possible players to tour Australia.

All three of them are good players and the Caribbean people are following them.
West Indies must play the strongest possible team in Australia.