Rocky start but selectors must stay the course

Clive Lloyd’s brave new world of youth, alternatively the post-Chanderpaul era, is off to a rocky start.

Recognising the unmistakable signs from his previous six Test matches that Shivnarine Chanderpaul, the most experienced, most dependable and, significantly, oldest of modern day batsmen, had come to the end of his remarkable, 21-year career, West Indies’ chief selector Lloyd, with head coach Phil Simmons by his side, set out the plan for the future leading into the two Tests against Australia.

“Our aim is to continue to play our young players to give them exposure and you can’t get better exposure than