Bdos: Players for Windies selection policy bizarre

...Until now, followers of West Indies cricket had been officially led to believe that players representing this region were chosen on performance or solid evidence of such extraordinary potential as would make their exclusion an act of unpardonable folly.
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We do not believe mainstream Caribbean citizens would have a difficulty with selectors passing over cricketers on the basis of serious attitudinal flaws. What we question, however, is the omission of persons whose behaviour is not called into question and whose performances in regional competitions easily eclipse those of the majority of other possible contenders for places in Test match and One-Day International (ODI) squads.

A case in point is Mr. Pedro Collins’s exclusion. His record in this year’s Carib Beer Championship is compelling: 37 wickets and a dangerous in-swinger that is new only to those who failed to follow his impressive career.

No tearaway fast bowler, Collins is blessed with an action so consistently troublesome that he remains a menace to all opposing teams....
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[H]is chance of getting a place in the international squad depends on how selectors spread the goodies among various umbrella bodies affiliated to the WICB.