Barbados-born former England batsman Roland Butcher said he sees an important role for Barbadian slow bowling all-rounder Roston Chase in the West Indies batting for the Twenty20 World Cup in October and November in the United Arab Emirates and Oman.
Butcher said Chase, the Most Valuable Player in the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) T20, which ended last Wednesday, was the kind of cricketer who could play the anchor role in the batting, like former West Indies batsman Marlon Samuels, whose steady, soulful style in the finals helped the team win the T20 World Cup in 2012 and 2016.
“I think they got a lucky break with the advancement of Roston Chase in the CPL because he can play the Marlon Samuels role of the glue that holds the batting together and he still has the ability to accelerate the scoring rate,” Butcher told Sun Sport.
“He has a very important role to play, but will he be able to perform that role because we are talking about different levels of the game, going from CPL to the World Cup stage. There are two different and distinct levels. He now has to go there and get that done.” (AR)
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