Davis describes Holder appointment as unfair

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FORMER TRINIDAD AND Tobago and West Indies opening batsman Bryan Davis has described the appointment and subsequent use of Barbados all-rounder Jason Holder as captain of the regional team, during the recent ICC Cricket World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, as unfair.

Davis, in a recent interview, noted, “I think it’s unfair for them to have put Holder to captain a team in a (World Cup) and even in South Africa, at this time in his cricket career because Holder is learning about cricket.

“He is a good cricketer, I think he is a good all-rounder for the future (but) he was not an established player on the side. He was trying to get into the team and he wasn’t any surety nor certainty. So he didn’t get that chance in South Africa and even in Australia to develop his own cricket because he had the responsibilities of captaincy.”

Davis went on to state, “I believe, because of his own self-confidence, he would make a good captain in the future. He’s not a good captain right now, I didn’t expect him to be. They pushed him there too quickly and he didn’t develop.

“It was a very important decision and a responsible decision to go and put a youngster to captain a team that (was) unprepared for the World Cup, and leaving out two uplifting elements like Pollard and Dwayne Bravo. That was totally unfair to the young man.”

Reflecting on the West Indies quarter-final defeat to co-hosts New Zealand, Davis said, “I think it was a pathetic performance. You could size it up in the way Johnson Charles got out. He’s opening the batting for the West Indies, he’s quite outside the leg stump swinging at a ball that is outside the off stump. To me, that shows exactly what is the mental attitude of the West Indies cricket team. Nobody went in there and (took) their time to play.

“Look at (Martin) Guptill, he played a couple balls, he got dropped at square leg, which I thought was a sitter by (Marlon) Samuels, a catch which should have been taken. He continued playing and at no time you saw any swiping until he got the pace of the wicket and he played himself in nicely. Then he started to accelerate after that (to reach an unbeaten and World Cup record 237).

“And that’s how cricket should be played. And we don’t have a clue how to play cricket. It is so pitiful, these batsmen don’t know how to bat again. Five I think is too high a position for (Denesh) Ramdin, Samuels has lost his art completely. Generally speaking, the whole batting approach is mentally weak and they were swiping. They weren’t batting properly at all. To get (to) a total like that, they have to bat properly and build their score.”

He continued, “The bowling was too ordinary. I think the bowling is weak anyway. I don’t think it’s a strong bowling side. And I believe the fielding has fallen back so far now, even Andre Russell, in the last couple of games, has been misfielding balls coming straight to him. He’s one of the better fieldsmen. Samuels dropping that catch, (Lendl) Simmons not diving to cut off balls going to the boundary, generally speaking, the whole approach to the cricket was wrong We’re like a losing side and we can’t win. And cricket, if anything, is a mental game, and you have to have self-confidence, the will to win and to be able to perform properly. And we didn’t at all.”

Asked if he sees any light at the end of the tunnel, Davis responded, “None whatsoever, no light at the end of the tunnel. What games (did) we win? We beat Pakistan in a good game when (Jerome) Taylor got the breakthrough and their spirits were up. But the time, in other matches, you saw a little partnership against (the West Indies), you find they just flagged and their shoulders flopped.

“Who we beat? Zimbabwe? UAE? Imagine making a big thing about UAE and we have to hope that rain don’t fall against the UAE and we have to win this match. And we struggled to beat the UAE, we had them 46/6 and they end up making 175. How is that possible? Imagine we made 303 against Ireland and couldn’t defend that? I don’t see any light at the end of the tunnel. If I do, it’s a train coming.”
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lol. So true.

hahahahaha.

give this one to ketchim and his university bwoy Holder > > > 

really! gih this one to ketchim and his Guyani bredder, afro pickney Lloyd, all grown now as a west indies selector, besides his skunt self in righteousness to select the crap he is ordered to pik, from down on his knees in front of the soup bowl.. the real life sign of his god... waiting for a peerage  and telling stupid stories in avuncular jocularity as if anybody but he  laffin..the old, dumb traitorous, back-stabbing, soup drinking skunt > > >

wasting the time of players..playing fast and loose with the careers of west indian humans alive and striving  now..and Jackass Holder, old enough at 23 but too stupid to say no, even when his best long term  interest is threatened by too early glory of high office..which glory and office is really bureaucratic exploitation and pappyshow, unrepresentative of the truth of the current situation.

give it to ketchim..a well deserved reward for his determination to stick with and support nonsense!... nothing but bureaucratic exploitation and pure elitist bad-mindedness by the newly rich Skameron to punish Brabits and Polly pieces for acting in their proper and legal, time-worn and respected defense of themselves and the interest of labour in general, in dealing with an exploitative management!

gih him!  he cyan run but he cyar hide

wwwwaaahhhhh  : Bry@n Davis gone wit that dat silly Trini Commess :

“It was a very important decision and a responsible decision to go and put a youngster to captain a team that (was) unprepared

for the World Cup, and leaving out two uplifting elements like Polypieces and Brabits   ::LOL:: ::LOL::

That was totally unfair to the young man.” 

I'll  be damned, Ramesh made these same points

Of course Davis will find fault, Jason replaced a Trinni.

memo to Davis : Andre Russel and Darren Sammy did just fine

Holder did extremely well : 10 overs on de Trot and top scored with 50s , TWICE !

Now yuh Trini bacchanal exposed  ::LOL::

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lol. So true.
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hahahahaha.give this one to ketchim and his university bwoy Holder >
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Why Trinis sooooo sensitive about them fellow Trickies ?  :-\

where was the righteous indignation for Sarwan and Shiv ?

wat sensitive ::confused::
not sensitive at all.  the west indies wurl skup was an exercise in pappyshow..a waste of time that did not advance west indies cricket.

2 fifitys by a player who pik fuh his bowling and who has likely exhausted his upside--Jaseon Holder..and Sammy who never had an upside and what else...... ::confused::

counting bits and pieces of achievements in place of what should have been genuine general progress for the west indies.  sweet!

shame on you ketchim.  it takes very, very, very, very....little to please you when your pet biases don't work out.  you drop the bar to the ground and anything that skips over is an 'achievement'
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Brabits and Pollypieces wouldda seen us Knocked Out in the Group stages.

poor you : Russel and Holder is an advancement to Polly and Bravo .

You can take that to the Bank