Ireland tour of West Indies : 1st ODI, Kingston

Kieron Pollard: "We can look back at the areas we need to improve. We need to find ways to try to rotate the strike. We lost about 6 wickets [for 52 runs] in the backend. These are the conversations we are trying to have, in terms of trying to be better as a team.”

The second and third ODIs between the West Indies and Ireland are now set to be played on Thursday, 13th January and Sunday, 16th January at Sabina Park

The time has come for us to take a hard look at the WI ODI team and make some hard choices. I will try to do some stats at the end of this series and make some suggestions moving forward. However on the outside it seems that our most consistent over the last 18 months or so are Alzari Joseph and Shai Hope in batting and bowling. Again I will look at the stats. Ideally along with them you would think that a Nicholoas Pooran (horrible loss.of form), Hetmyer (failure to be fit) Evin Lewis (injury) Holder (stability) Pollard (captaincy) and Fabian Allen (fitness) would form 8 of the core pieces you can build around. We have an ODI world Cup next year in 2023. We should only need 6 more people. Again I will look for the stats to support my argument. But what way you about the 8.