The West Indies selectors, with the support of head coach Otis Gibson and board chief executive Ernest Hilaire, have made a couple of bold decisions these past six months.
The appointment of Darren Sammy as captain “until the end of the Digicel Series 2011” and the more recent simultaneous omissions from the early matches of the current Pakistan series of Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Chris Gayle and Ramnaresh Sarwan, the team’s only three batsmen with genuine credentials of record and experience, were carefully considered judgments.
They were also clearly fraught with awkward consequences that are now surfacing, both on and off the field, once more