mikesiva wrote:I borrowed this from an excellent post on cc.com....
Fact is that In last 20 odd years, only 4** out of 47 batsmen, could make the cut! (<10%)
Detailed List - In Bold, those who learnt and avg more than 40 in Test Cricket
1994: Shiv Chanderpaul, Stuart Williams,
1995: Sherwin Campbell
1996: Robert Samuels
1997: Adrian Griffith, Roland Holder, Floyd Reifer, Philo Wallace
1998: Darren Ganga
1999: Dave Joseph, Suruj Raghoonath, Lincol Roberts, Ricardo Powell
2000: Chris Gayle, Wavvel Hinds, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Marlon Samuels
2001: Leon Garrick
2002: Ryan Hinds,
2003: Devon Smith
2004: Dwayne Smith, Dwayne Bravo, Sylvester Joseph
2005: Narsingh Deonarine, Donovan Pagon, Xavier Marshall, Runako Morton, Ryan Ramdass
2007: Darren Sammy
2008: Brenton Parchment, Sewanarine Chatergoon, Brendan Nash
2009: Lendl Simmons, Travis Dowlin, Omar Phillips, Dale Richards, Adrian Barath
2010: Darren Bravo
2011: Kraigg Braithwaite, Kirk Edwards, Keiran Powell
2012: Asad Fudadin
2014: Leon Johnson, Jermaine Blackwood**
2015: Shai Hope, Shane Dowrich, Rajinder Chandrika
**Jury still out on 5th - Jermaine Blackwood
Some pointers:
1. This "2015 Clive Lloyd's MAD PLAN OF YOUTH" is not a new one. Same was done earlier in:
1999 under Lara,
2000 under Jimmy,
2003 again under Lara,
2005 under Shiv,
2011 under Sammy
We have kept going to this FAILED YOUTH POLICY and have never honestly reviewed it!
2. As The above is only a batsmen list, but if the bowlers were added also, it will show a crystal clear "MAD SELECTION POLICY OF BLOODING IN YOUTH" who have hardly established themselves in Domestic Cricket and doing away with current experienced or semi-experienced lot.
I reiterate, there is a REPEATED OBSESSION of BLOODING YOUTH and DISCARDING either Experienced (30-35 yrs) or Promising Middle Aged (25-30 yrs) Batsmen, the above list bears TESTAMENT TO THAT FACT
4/47 =
8.5% success rate, which goes some way to explaining the consistency in results over the same time period.
An
8.5% success rate for quality test cricketers

while BWICBC sycophants continue to claim it's the players exploits in maroon that have earned almost 15 of them contracts to play in T20 leagues around the globe

GTFOH

So, have the BWICBC stopped investing in Fuddadin, Kieran Powell, Adrian Barath, Leon Johnson & Kirk Edwards, can someone spell asset management
Well I guess If they can dump their passionate, hard working, Worrell like and committed to WI first Cappo Sammy then anything goes, so I wouldn't call these unscientific selections a youth policy as such, but more another guise under which scrutiny is diverted away from their bureaucratic self interest, by keeping the majority of cricket fans energy focused on side issues that do not alter the status quo.