On the basis of recent form which is normally the modus operandi of selection panels as they pick teams, Guyana all-rounder Chris Barnwell would have thought himself hard-done by not to have been selected for the West Indies team as a replacement for injured batsman Marlon Samuels for their brief five ODI/two T20 tour of Australia beginning this week. Conversely, out of sorts fellow countryman and West Indies batsman Ramnaresh Sarwan must consider himself lucky to have secured a call back to the Windies squad for the tour after a contentious 18-month absence from the regional team, given his dreadful showing in the just-concluded 2013 Caribbean T20 tournament.
Fortunately for Sarwan the selectors named the team for Australia