CHRIS GAYLE’S open denunciation of the omission of Dwayne Bravo and Keiron Pollard from the World Cup squad last week was the latest in an extensive list of such forthright comments he has directed against the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), its chief executive, its selectors and its head coach.
He saw the selection as “victimization”, a reference to Bravo’s role as captain and chief spokesman for the players on the abandoned tour of India in October and Pollard’s perceived connivance. He called the selection “ridiculous”, a word he used four times. Without the two, the team would not be at its strongest, he added.
Such opinions are widely held and expressed, by a prime minister and a cabinet minister of two separate Caricom states and, in print in this column among many others as well as on radio and television programmes by a media and a public just as disgruntled by the exclusion of the two.
The significant difference is that those who share them are, unlike Gayle,
