WICB Administrators and Selectors should resign immediately
IT IS extremely painful and unacceptable for the Caribbean cricketing fraternity to accept a West Indies cricket team that excludes our most loyal, reliable and dependable batsman in Shivnarine Chanderpaul. Further, the non-inclusion of Ramnaresh Sarwan who is only 30 years old and certainly, the best batsman in the Caribbean is an insult to young Sarwan and blatant discrimination and bias selection policy. 
It cannot be denied that Chris Gayle is presently one of the best opening batsmen in the world, while one wonders why the experienced and solid wicketkeeper batsman Dinesh Ramdin is also not in the team.
This insularity in West Indies cricket must stop now. 
The Caribbean countries spent millions of hard-earned taxpayers’ money to build national stadiums and host the 2007 World Cup, while money and human resources were invested to host the ICC Twenty/20 tournament in the Caribbean recently. 
However, West Indies cricket continues to deteriorate that we now are at the very bottom of the Test-playing nations and this sad state of West Indies cricket demands the attention of the CARICOM Head of States.
President of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Julian Hunte is failing to offer any quality leadership to the WICB, while the arrogant and unreliable Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Ernest Hiliare who made all sorts of promises to countries around the Caribbean and failed to fulfil his promises, seems hell bent in destroying West Indies cricket. 
Hilaire seeks pride in talking down to our senior players and cherishes his opportunities to divide and rule the local cricket boards in the Caribbean. 
Many cricket administrators around the Caribbean are against his infantile behaviour. In fact some administrators are of the strong opinion that his best intention is to destroy West Indies cricket by his biased attitude.
Clyde Butts, the Chairman of the Selectors, must be a man. He must show us criteria for selecting the team. Down with Butts’ explanation that he is following the dictates of the Board! 
As Chief Selector, Butts must not be a messenger and a cleaner and he certainly is not a baggage boy. He should assert himself and let the Caribbean people know why Chanderpaul and Sarwan are not included in the team. 
Butts’ naïve explanation that Sarwan was not selected last year because of his fitness is a clear demonstration of his weakness and his inability to make decision and think for himself.
Ottis Gibson is another ‘bell-boy’.  He is a total failure as a coach. Imagine Gibson who knows nothing about batting is telling the World class batsmen that they must go out there and hit over the top. He is regulating the batting order with a trial and error system.
Any good coach must enjoy a good relationship with the senior players in the team. However, Gibson told the players that he suffered and had to sit on the bench and watch the senior and regular players play. 
Now, Gibson is most vindictive and he seeks pride in humiliating the senior players and that is why without any explanation, Chanderpaul was dropped from the last two preliminary matches in the World Cup and they were forced to play him in the quarter finals when he top-scored in the team’s paltry score of 112 all out.
The notorious and power-drunk administrators/selectors and coach in West Indies cricket must resign now so that people with good leadership skills and who know about cricket get an opportunity to administer West Indies Cricket.
The time is most opportune when Guyanese in particular must rally behind our most senior players in Chanderpaul and Sarwan. 
The last One Day International against Pakistan is scheduled to play in Guyana on  May 5.  Let us call on the selectors to correct this anomaly and include ‘Shiv’ and ‘Sars’ in the team.
We must give our unflinching support to these two Guyanese and also call for the selection of the best team available to play for the West Indies.
We must also condemn the ruckus behaviour in the team dressing room.  Gibson, the coach, must respect all our players and stop his ranting and raving on them, while both Hilaire and Gibson must stop using threats to our players and allow them to play cricket.