West Indies selectors wasting time and money
Writing in the Jamaica Gleaner , Tony Becca is baffled by the West Indies selectors.
Brydon Coverdale
25-Feb-2013
Writing in the Jamaica Gleaner, Tony Becca is baffled by the West Indies selectors.
I still believed, up to a few days ago, that a selector should travel with the West Indies team, that the regional selectors should travel around the islands to see the players in action, and that although he played for the West Indies while living in England, Lloyd, in spite of his greatness and his knowledge of the game, should not be a selector as long as he lives outside the region.
The reason why I have changed my opinion is that, based on the selection of the squad for the coming series against Australia, it seems, it is a waste of money flying the selectors around, paying their hotel bills, and offering them out of pocket expenses and whatever else they may get from a board that is short of money.
Apart from the waste of time and money to transport and to accommodate those who do not have the chance of a snow ball in hell to make the team, in selecting 17 players plus 'sure picks' Chris Gayle, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Ramnaresh Sarwan and Dwayne Bravo, the selectors have baffled the fans.
Brydon Coverdale is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. He tweets here