It was a bomb waiting to detonate, wreaking more damage to West Indies cricket that, after two decades of collapse, can hardly withstand any more.
After lying dormant for almost a year, its fuse was relit on Friday by head coach Phil Simmons’ furious criticism on the continued exclusion of Dwayne Bravo and Keiron Pollard from the squad for three upcoming ODIs in Sri Lanka.
Ironically, Simmons was in an opposing camp when the explosive device was created in the aftermath of the team’s premature pull-out of its scheduled tour of India last October. Bravo and Pollard were dropped, without an official explanation, for the subsequent ODIs in South Africa and the World Cup.
It was assumed that Bravo was penalised as he was ODI captain in India;