West Indies tour of Australia, November-December 2009

[Skater]

Would Kemar Roach have been close to the team if it was not for the strike? He looked good to me in the Champions Trophy, fast and hostile. Is he going to be playing on the tour of Australia?

 

[Dare]

Would Kemar Roach have been close to the team if it was not for the strike?He looked good to me in the Champions Trophy, fast and hostile. Is he going to be playing on the tour of Australia?

Roach was one the team that toured New Zealand and he was in the team that payed Australia at home so it was just a matter of time before he was given a test cap. Played a couple of 20/20s against the Aussies.

I hope he gets to tour Australia, atm I don't see a better option to partner Edwards and Taylor. He has the talent and the ability as he showed by bowling Watson 1st ball in the Champions trophy. And he has the speed, just needs to play a bit more domestic cricket.


Also IMO Rampaul has had a few good 1st class seasons under his belt and should at least get a chance to compete for the spot.

 

[WestIndian]

Yea the money in the US can certainly take away a good number of youngsters but I think the history and the popularity of the game will keep allot of them focused on cricket. At least i hope it does.

But let us face reality, how many West India sportsmen/youngsters has a real chance of getting into mainstream US sports with serious money behind it?
Regardless of the current situation, West Indies has more than it's quota for fulling West Indies Cricket Roster!!
Our issues in cricket are compounded by the fact that we are individual Islands with different backgrounds and personalities, we are One Nation by sports, more so Cricket and Football, not by borders! Believe me that makes a hell of a lot of difference when compared to all other Test playing Nations.

 

[Dare]

But let us face reality, how many West India sportsmen/youngsters has a real chance of getting into mainstream US sports with serious money behind it?

Yea that is true, for the exception of a few Caribbean nations not many have the facilities and finances to raise great athletes in sports other then cricket. Athletics is popular and lots of good sprinters come from the Caribbean but other then that in the current countries that are a part from the WI other sports are in the back seat to cricket.

 

[pcfan123]

If only Standford has invested the money in infrastructure. Think of how much cricket equipment and field maintaence 20 million dollars could buy for local schools.

We need a billionaire who is a obsessed with cricket and in love with the game like PC members. All the current super wealthy cricket "lovers" are posers in my opinion. The only ones I can think of are Stanford, Harry Potter, Richard Branson and Keith Richards.

 

[StinkyBoHoon]

If only Standford has invested the money in infrastructure. Think of how much cricket equipment and field maintaence 20 million dollars could buy for local schools.

We need a billionaire who is a obsessed with cricket and in love with the game like PC members. All the current super wealthy cricket "lovers" are posers in my opinion. The only ones I can think of are Stanford, Harry Potter, Richard Branson and Keith Richards.

you forgot Lilly Allen.

 

[Fatal Shot]

you forgot Lilly Allen.

She's only obsessed with Graham Onions.

 

[Howsie]

The West Indies squad has been named, it is as follows:

Chris Gayle (capt), Adrian Barath, Sulieman Benn, Dwayne Bravo, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Narsingh Deonarine, Travis Dowlin, Brendan Nash, Denesh Ramdin, Ravi Rampaul, Kemar Roach, Darren Sammy, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Jerome Taylor, Gavin Tonge

Fidel Edwards is out with a knee injury which is a big shame, would have loved to have seen Taylor, Roach and Edwards play together. Good to see Adrian Barath included again, at least the selectors didn't go back to the same old rubbish. From that team I'd like to see:

1.Chris Gayle
2.Adrian Barath
3.Ramnaresh Sarwan
4.Brendon Nash
5.Shiv Chanderpaul
6.Dwayne Bravo
7.Denesh Ramdin
8.Sulieman Benn
9.Jerome Taylor
10.Ravi Rampaul/Gavin Tonge
11.Kemar Roach

I'd probably go with Rampaul for the first test, just to give the team so variation.

 

[Skater]

That's actually a strong team. Not whitewash material.

 

[Dare]

yea thats what my team would be like too Howsie. Shame that Fidel isn't available, Im sure he would have loved those Aussie pitches and the challenge of facing their batsman. I also would take Rampaul over Tonge.

Would have been nice if another spinner got selected alongside Benn, Im not impressed by him.

 

[StinkyBoHoon]

in all honesty, I wonder about playing bravo as well. he's such a good fielders and lifts the side, and his bowling gives even more options. At the end of the day though, the windies will probably need batting more anything else, will bravo hang about longer than simmons? that's got to be the main point of selection.

options in attack are all well in good but the chances of the windies skittling the aussies because they play Bravo are still extremely remote. just use nash and gayle and play the best batsman.

 

[Howsie]

in all honesty, I wonder about playing bravo as well. he's such a good fielders and lifts the side, and his bowling gives even more options. At the end of the day though, the windies will probably need batting more anything else, will bravo hang about longer than simmons? that's got to be the main point of selection.

options in attack are all well in good but the chances of the windies skittling the aussies because they play Bravo are still extremely remote. just use nash and gayle and play the best batsman.

IMO Bravo would make this current West Indies team as a batsmen alone, he's probably one of the better batsmen in the team at the moment. Plus he's had success in Australia before, he scored 113 in the last test irrc.

 

[Dare]

in all honesty, I wonder about playing bravo as well. he's such a good fielders and lifts the side, and his bowling gives even more options. At the end of the day though, the windies will probably need batting more anything else, will bravo hang about longer than simmons? that's got to be the main point of selection.

options in attack are all well in good but the chances of the windies skittling the aussies because they play Bravo are still extremely remote. just use nash and gayle and play the best batsman.

No Bravo is too valuable for the team. He is as good of a batsman as Simmons, and has more experience. His bowling is useful for the team, he is the only pace bowler beside Taylor who has played a test match.
If anything take out on of the other bowlers and insert Deonarine. Bring Ramdin in at 8.

 

[Howsie]

yea thats what my team would be like too Howsie. Shame that Fidel isn't available, Im sure he would have loved those Aussie pitches and the challenge of facing their batsman. I also would take Rampaul over Tonge.

Would have been nice if another spinner got selected alongside Benn, Im not impressed by him.

Yeah that's a pretty big blow, was really looking forward to seeing how he went in Australia.

I think Benn might go quite well in Australia tbh. Spinner's don't really get that much turn in Australia, unless they're leggies. Benn's strength is easily the bounce he can get, he should get plenty from these pitches.

 

[StinkyBoHoon]

I just noticed simmons isn't selected anyway and bravo is definitely better than Deonarine and Dowlin, so I guess he'll play.

I really think they should look at doing what england or australia have done recently and pick an all rounder in one of the bowling slots. there's no shame in it, australia took white to india to bolster them and broad and swann's selection for england has a lot to do with batting. Maybe play Deonarine in place of Benn, it seems pointless but there's not point sticking to the standard top 5/all-rounder/wicky/4 bowlers formula if you're going to get slaughtered.

StinkyBoHoon added 0 Minutes and 35 Seconds later...

If anything take out on of the other bowlers and insert Deonarine. Bring Ramdin in at 8.

HA, was just writing a post to that effect.