‘Getting dropped now is good for Bishoo’

Lance Gibbs

From Colin Benjamin in Trinidad

One of the greatest off-spin bowlers in test history, if not the greatest – Lancelot Richard Gibbs has stated that Devendra Bishoo’s  being dropped for the on-going second test versus Australia is the best thing that could happen to 26-year old leg-spinner at this early stage of his career.

Gibbs, who took 309 test wicket in 79 tests in a glittering career from 1958-1975, was speaking to Stabroek Sport at the Gerry Gomez media centre during the tea time interval yesterday and he explained why Bishoo, the current