Dear Editor,

Congratulations to our Shivnarine Chanderpaul on his rise to the top of the world ratings.

While Chanderpaul has been our most reliable batsman over the last 14 years it has become clear to me that this young man no longer plays for his team and only plays for himself and his world rating. Especially in our one-dayer and 20/20 matches when the West Indies are in dire straits for runs – boundaries – Chanders still continues to nudge the ball around for a single, ambles down to the other end, leaving the scoring and chance of being out to the other batsman.

Mr Editor, we have lost too many matches and series because of this ploy.

My appeal to the WI selectors therefore is not to pick the Tiger in these limited over matches. Let him play in Test matches only.

Yours faithfully,
Randolph Joseph Eleazar