PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – An ex-West Indies player has labelled Dwayne Bravo’s axing as West Indies One-Day captain as “suspicious” and believes the all-rounder has paid the price for his role in the controversial abandoned tour of India last October.
Bravo, who was replaced as skipper by 23-year-old Jason Holder, was also dropped from the 15-man squad to tour South Africa next month, along with the experienced duo Kieron Pollard and former captain Darren Sammy.
Bryan Davis, who played four Tests against Australia in 1965, said the group that toured India was West Indies’ best squad and felt that the raft of changes that had taken place were as a result of the players strike.
“I believe it has to do with the abandonment of the tour of India,” Davis told the Trinidad Express newspaper.
“Dwayne Bravo has suffered the consequences . . . I am only judging by what the WICB said that there would be no discrimination. They could cover it up and talk about transition, but the timing was very bad.” (CMC)
