ChrisQ wrote:mikesiva wrote:I doubt it...Narine's rehab has been carried out with absolutely no input from the WICB:
http://www.windiesfans.com/index.php?op ... &Itemid=50
That tells me it's just between Narine and Kolkata. So, Narine himself decides when he comes back, and because the World Cup pays players more than any other tournament, well....
And given how desperate the WICB is after cutting off its nose to spite its face (Big Bravo)....
That's rubbish.
Big Bravo has been a utter waste since the end of February 2014.
http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Playe ... eason.html
http://www.howstat.com/cricket/Statisti ... &Year=2014
Dwayne Bravo has averaged about 12.5 runs over the last 10 months of ODI cricket in 8 matches. His last score over 27 was on February 28, 2014 when he made 87* against England. Since then against England, Bangladesh (!) and India he has not made 30 runs in an innings and for the Bangladesh series his average was 7 (that's right 7.00) and for India it was 9 (yep, 9.00).
If he had been picked on the back of performances from almost a complete year ago it would have been insane.
Bravo has nobody but himself to blame. He's always underperformed except in rare bursts of brilliance and then it was back to his normal modus operandi of showing potential but never quite actually living up to it in international cricket. The ONLY reason he made the ICC ODI Team of the Year for 2014 was on the back of FOUR matches in January and February 2014 against New Zealand and England (with scores of 56*, 43*, 106 and 87*) and his bowling. If one takes the average for those four matches it is an insanely high 292.00. When you throw in all the other matches he actually played in for 2014 you get a pretty decent looking average of 46.11 with an aggregate of 415 runs. However 292 of those runs in 13 innings came from just 4 innings. In other words 70% of his aggregate runs for 2014 came from just 31% of his innings (all of which occurred at the start of the year). A mere 21% of his runs for the year came the last 61% of the matches he played.
He IS a very flashy player and as a result many people are duped into thinking he is actually a good player and quite possibly an indispensable player. But the harsh truth is that the West Indies' world cup chances are literally no different with or without Mr. Dwayne Bravo.
The West Indies' World Cup chances are literally no different with or without any of the current players in the squad....
The same could be said for the Test team...the only WI team that's a world-beater is the T20 side. The fact of the matter is that Big Bravo is the only WI player to make the ICC ODI team of the year, and yet he can't make our World Cup side. As Michael Holding said, that means we must have one helluva damn good ODI side, then!
Still, the way this World Cup format is laid out, the first four weeks are a complete waste of time, as the top four amble towards the quarter-finals. The first real matches will be at the knockout stages, and we may get lucky - who knows?
