Retired champion cricketers Wayne Daniel and Franklyn Stephenson say they are at a loss at the omission of dazzling allrounder Carlos Brathwaite from the West Indies squad for the forthcoming T20 World Cup.
Daniel, one of the leading fast bowlers in the West Indies in the late 1970s and early 1980s, thinks that Brathwaite should have been an automatic choice while Stephenson, who played first-class cricket in South Africa, Australia and England, said that the 33-year-old Brathwaite would have been an asset to the squad.
The 65-year-old Daniel told Weekend Sport, he was baffled at the exclusion of Brathwaite, who played the last of his 41 T20 Internationals, two years ago.
“It is unreal. I had this conversation only this morning (yesterday) and I cannot understand why Carlos Brathwaite isn’t playing T20 cricket for the West Indies. I know there is a view that in Test cricket cricket, his bowling lacks penetration but in one-Day and T20 cricket, he is effective enough and should play. (MK)
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