ACCORDING to Clyde Butts, he and his selection panel went for Dwayne Bravo to take over from Darren Sammy as captain for next month’s Champions Trophy and the later ODIs against India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan at home because “we believe it is best that we freshen the leadership of the team in this format.”
The basis given for the change was the negative overseas record in such series – successive losses to India 4-1, England 2-0, Bangladesh 3-2 and Australia 5-0 – as against the triumph in last October’s World Twenty20 and six straight victories in Tests (granted over New Zealand, Bangladesh and Zimbabwe but victories, and conclusive, all the same).
The straightforward reasons for such reversals were either batting breakdowns or the
