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Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Ancestral Lineages/Surnames

 
Ancestral  Lineages/Surnames
PARENTS (2/siblings): Sancho, and Ross
GRANDPARENTS (4/first cousins):  Alexander Sancho, Rachael Campbell, Blanche Ross-Semple and Jacob Stanley Martin
GREAT GRANDPARENTS (8/second cousins): Lammy Tuckness Sancho, James Campbell, Coolie Solomon, Josephine P Young, Noble Ross, Mary Maude McPherson and the names of Great-Grandparents, Martin are unknown.
GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS (16/third cousins): Bentick Sancho, Walter Young, Mary Sumner, Richard Semple and the names of the twelve other great-great-grandparents are unknown.
GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS (32/fourth cousins):  Walter DeYoung and Richard Semple and the names of the thirty other great-great-great-grandparents are unknown. Sancho great-great-great-grandparents possibly Mande and perhaps Temne are enslaved at Plantation Enmore and/or Plantation Paradise, or on both plantations, in Demerara. There are legally, the property of Thomas Porter (1749-1815) and his sons. 
GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS (64/fifth cousins):  
GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS (128/sixth cousins):  
GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS (256/seventh cousins):  
GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS (512/eight cousins):  GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPARENTS (1024/ninth cousins):  

Cricket in Guyana must regain its status as the national pastime and with overcrowded match day facilities as it were 1954-1977.

 It is clear. Berbice is the strongest of the three counties in cricket.  The batting would revolve around Hetmyer, Bramble with support from Anderson, Junior Sinclair, Kevin Sinclair, Shepherd, Motie, and Permaul, the bowling would be Joseph, Shepherd, and Smith the quicks. Motie, Permaul, Junior Sinclair, and Kevin Sinclair provide the spin. Hetmyer and Motie are not in the current encounter. Kevlon Anderson and Junior Sinclair batted extremely well. Junior Sinclair must stop bowling no balls. Spinners bowling no balls are unacceptable.  Dropped catches are common in cricket. Junior Sinclair and Kevin Sinclair need to catch the ball far more regularly in every form of cricket.  Berbice needs two positive opening batsmen and two positive middle order batsmen and a wicket-keeper batsman as understudy to Anthony Bramble. Joseph, Shepherd, and Smith are not mind boggling. Clinton Pestano is past his prime. Thorne is a future prospect. Cameron is not where it’s at. Identifying and adding two or more hostile and outstanding fast bowlers with deliveries consistently well over 90 miles per hour to this current group would make Berbice cricket the dominant force in the Americas. 
Demerara even at full strength with Tagenarine Chanderpaul, Chandrapaul Hemraj, Sherfane Rutherford and Vishual Singh in their team; does not possess bowlers to cause batsmen sleepless nights and discomfort at the crease. Ronaldo Ali-Mohamed, Qumar Torrington, Richie Looknauth, Ashmead Nedd and Steven Sankar, are not known to be match winning bowlers at this level.  Ashmead Nedd, Richie Looknauth and Steven Sankar may very well develop into outstanding spinners. Demerara needs four young 17-22 years old refreshing batsmen to form an outstanding first six with Tagenarine Chanderpaul, and Sherfane Rutherford.
Kevon Boodie, Quintin Sampson, Kemol Savory, Anthony Adams, Ricardo Adams, Keemo Paul and Ronsford Beaton make Essequebo much stronger than Demerara with both bat and ball.  The strongest teams do not necessarily win every match and/or series.
Essequebo needs three stroke players, two fast bowlers and two spinners to rise to the summit of Guyana and West Indies cricket in current times. 
GCB, BCB, DCB, and ECB with cooperation with the Government of Guyana must invest in cricket academies, the three formats of the international game, attacking batting, fast bowling, umpires, coaches, coaching programs, mental fortitude, national consciousness and cricket industry generally, in every town, other major population centers, and districts. At least three stadiums capable of accommodating over 30,000 spectators must be constructed with wickets favoring fast bowlers. Facilities offering wins and losses are preferred by fans. Such ought to boost tourism and the cricket industry in Guyana. Cricket must regain its status as the national pastime and with overcrowded match day facilities as it were 1954-1977. 


Sunday, February 26, 2023

West Indies under 19 World Cup 2016 Squad - seven years later

 Has CWI's BUCK BREAKING Shimron Hetmyer culminate into this ugly reality? Hetmyer was selected to captain Berbice. However, Hetmyer  withheld his services against Demerara and perhaps the entire competition.  There has been no satisfactory reason given. Does this mean Hetmyer will cease making donations to Berbice cricket and our people in Berbice? 
This is the last West Indies squad, this POW likes: Shimron Hetmyer (captain), Jyd Goolie, Keacy Carty, Shahid Crooks, Michael Frew, Tevin Imlach (wicketkeeper), Ryan John, Alzarri Joseph, Kirstan Kallicharan, Obed McCoy, Keemo Paul, Gidron Pope, Odean Smith, Shamar Springer, Emmanuel Stewart, and Chemar Holder
He is disappointed Kirstan Kallicharan and Gidron Pope never made a positive impression at the next level. He is further disappointed Keacy Carty, Tevin Imlach, Ryan John, Shamar Springer, have not forced their way into West Indies teams. He is also disappointed Obed McCoy, Keemo Paul, Odean Smith, and Chemar Holder has not established themselves as corn stones of West Indies cricket. Alzarri Joseph has not risen above mediocrity in international arenas. This POW was hoping, prior to 2023, Alzarri Joseph would be in the conversation with Andy Roberts and Curtly Ambrose. Obviously, Eldine Baptiste, Kenneth Benjamin, Winston Benjamin, George Ferris and Anthony Merrick are much better than Alzarri Joseph will ever be. 
Shimron Hetmyer participated in 16 test matches, April 21, 2017 – November 27, 2019. His scoring rate tells the story. He seems to be trying to force the scoring instead of playing each delivery on its merit. One thinks the absence of Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Denesh Ramdin is clearly demonstrated in Hetmyer’s test career. Every great West Indies batsman had someone who mentored and nurtured their batting. Perhaps, Gordon Greenidge failed in Australia in 1975-1976 because there was no Clyde Walcott on the tour, and of course, Fredericks, Rowe, Kallicharran and Lloyd the senior batsmen were all tied in knots by the hostility and speed of Jeff Thomson and the outstanding Dennis Lillee. Therefore Greenidge did not receive any support. 
CWI is still the guilty perpetrator in the ongoing Hetmyer saga. Fans are emotional. Fans are gullible. They are easily swayed by the narratives the employers want them to accept. Fans crave distraction from their situation. Now, this POW is not surprised CWI war of discrediting Hetmyer has become absolutely counterproductive. CWI behaviors culminate into this ugly reality. This POW is hoping Hetmyer will be available for the remaining Berbice matches. He would have preferred Hetmyer against Demerara and Essequebo and resting against GCB select team.

Saturday, February 25, 2023

Berbice had always been the backwater by Shan Razack

Berbice had always been the backwater by Shan Razack 

Berbice batsman distinguished themselves in Test cricket after relativeobscurity. Berbice was often considered an obscure cricketing entity, relegated to the cellar and deemed incapable of really producing anyone of Test  match caliber. Even so, because it was extremely difficult in the earlier days for the boys from the rural areas to get on the national side.It was, in fact, the Demerarians who led the way in promoting inter-colonial cricket in the West Indies during the last third of the 19th century. They undertook the first visit to Barbados in 1865, became Trinidad’s very first opponents in 1869, and hosted the first Barbadian touring team in 1871. It was a Demerarian, a colonial Police Inspector E.F. Wright who recorded the first century ever achieved in first-class cricket on Caribbean soil. At Georgetown, in September 1882, he struck an astonishing 123 at Trinidad’s expense in a first innings total of 168, which itself was then the highest score ever made by a West Indian. Four years later, it was another Demerarian, George N. Wyatt who did most to facilitate the first tour of a composite West Indian team. In 1886, three Barbadians and six Jamaicans joined four Demerarians in an invasion of Canada and the United States. They played thirteen matches, won six, lost five and drew two.It was not until 1944, some 79 years and 48 matches later, that a player from the Ancient County was selected to represented the country. He was the big, barrel-chested John Trim, a pace bowler. It was not until nine years later and20 matches, in 1953, that a batsman from Berbice represented the country. Opening batsman Charles Paul, the uncle of Leslie Amsterdam had the distinct honor of doing so. It didn’t take long this time, just a matter of two years, for two of the finest in West Indies, nay, world cricket Rohan Kanhai and Basil Butcher to emerge. Along with Joe Solomon, they were to open the floodgates for other outstanding batsmen in Berbice to stake their claim. 
Two decades after 1955 saw the emergence of a significant number of batsmen from Berbice-Kanhai, Butcher Solomon, Fredericks, Kallicharran, Baichan, Shivnarine, Lambert, Sonny Moonsammy, Amsterdam and Romain Etwaroo. A most remarkable fact about these batsmen is that Kanhai, Butcher, Solomon, Kallicharran and Etwaroo are all from Port Mourant on the Corentyne Coast. Fredericks and Amsterdam come from Blairmont. Shivnarine from Albion and Baichan from Rose Hall Estate. They are all plantation towns. Lambert is from New Amsterdam.
The game of cricket flowered in such communities because it was one of the few means whereby isolated rural townships asserted their identity in their county, and in the wider context of Guyanese society. In Port Mourant, a town whose population was 99 per cent Indians in the 1950s, cricket was clearly a means whereby a powerful sense of ethnic identity found expression in the greater community of a turbulent British Guiana.
Berbice had always been the backwater; British Guiana players were always selected from the Georgetown clubs. Berbice was favored with one representative now and then just to oblige… ‘But the organization of an inter-county tournament in 1954 meant that the brilliant backwoodsmen would no longer languish in anonymity, sustained by mere village adulation, however, exuberant.
Basil Butcher has spoken of what gave the boys from Port Mourant the chance. He writes: “The revival of Guyanese cricket in recent years has been the direct consequence of the organizating , a dozen years ago, of annual representative matches between the two counties (Berbice and Demerara). For the first time it became virtually impossible for a young player of real promise to go unnoticed. Quite possible neither Rohan Kanhai, Joe Solomon nor I would have reached Test cricket under the old system. All three of us won a place at the national level as a result of playing for Berbice in the inter-county tournament.”
John Trim, a fast bowler who played for the West Indies against England (1947-48), India (1948-49) and Australia (1951-52) was Kanhai’s next door neighbor and his first mentor in cricket. Butcher lived 200 yards away, Solomon half a mile away. Ivan Madray, a right-hand, leg-spinner who represented the West Indies in two tests was also from the same community along with Kanhai, Butcher and Solomon. Butcher, Solomon and Kanhai played for Port Mourant Cricket Club under skipper Johnny Teekasingh in the early fifties.
Kanhai was not only the most talented of the four, but also the boldest, the one with the strongest will and the clearest sense of purpose. He stood out from the start. Realizing the virtually impossibility of being selected as a middle order batsman in a side containing the three terrible W’s, he elected to qualify as both opening batsman and wicket-keeper/batsman, two of the most difficult positions on the side. It was as wicket-keeper/batsman that he was called in 1954 to play a feature match in Georgetown, in which he scored over fifty and held five catches, which was sufficient to gain his place as second wicket-keeper on the Guyana touring team to Barbados in February, 1955. He developed fast as the standard of the competition improved and was able to score an aggressive fifty odd against the Australian touring team in 1955. One year later, October 1956 Kanhai, Butcher, Solomon and (Madray) all represented Guyana in the Quadrangular Cricket Tournament among Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and Guyana and created history by each scoring a century in the match against Jamaica. Kanhai crowned this performance with 195 run out against Barbados, Solomon also scored a century in this match. It was in this match that Skipper Clyde Walcott encouraged Kanhai to temper his aggressiveness and compile big scores rather than being satisfied with only a century.
Clyde Walcott who was living in Guyana and working as Welfare Office on the sugar estates, feels that he had a great influence on the emergence of Kanhai during this period. Berbice has now been placed on the cricketing map. Hither to unrecognized, the prowess of Berbicians at cricket received a fillip and publicity with the advent of Robert Christiani at Port Mourant Estate and the coming to British Guiana as cricket coach.
Guyana cricket had logged behind the rest of the Caribbean mainly because of the fierce internal conflicts between the Black, Asian and White communities and because of the blind conservatism of the elite Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC). British Guian occupying more than 83,000 square miles was the largest of the British West Indies colonies and possessed a population those days in excess of 600,000. There was no valid reason for such a protracted slump. The turning point came with the appointment of Clyde Walcott as Cricket Organizer and Coach on the estates of the British Guiana Sugar Producers’ Association (BGSPA) in 1954. Walcott did his best to destroy the social and ethnic barriers that had impeded Guiana cricket. He gave strong encouragement and support to such budding stars as Basil Butcher, Lance Gibbs, Rohan Kanhai, Joe Solomon, Alvin Kallicharran, Roy Fredericks, Clive Lloyd, Ivan Madray, Ivor Mendonca, Charlie Stayers and Colon Wiltshire. During the age of Walcott (1954-1970) which lasted well into the period of Independence, when British Guiana changed its name, Guyana became a powerful once again. Signs of improvement were evident almost at once. In a Quadrangular cricket tournament at Bourda in 1956, Butcher, Kanhai and Solomon shared five centuries between them in two games against Barbados and Jamaica.
It was an opportune time. The West Indies team of 1950 was on the verge of decline. The retirement of Rae and Stollmeyer meant that a pair of openers was needed. Injury to Walcott’s back had forced him to abandon keeping wicket. Kanhai was therefore an obvious choice for the 1957 tour to England. Butcher and Solomon, middle order players would have to wait the retirement of two of the W’s. It remained difficult to penetrate the West Indies through the middle order. Talented newcomers are as Kanhai, Solomon, Nurse, Rowe and Richards have all done sometimes compelled to serve as openers, and many, like Nurse, find themselves shunted up and down the order at who know what price to both composure and achievement.
Kanhai, an opener in 1957, had to face the battle and hostility of the great Fred Truman, who recognized a kindred spirit. His philosophy of destroying the bowling often lead, as it was to do 12 years later in the case of Roy Fredericks, the loss of his wicket after he had passed the score of 50. It was a philosophy, nonetheless which was to give Kanhai his particular charisma throughout his first ten years of Test cricket, and which may even have cost him the captaincy of the West Indies in 1974. One of the reasons suggested for the West Indies losing the Fifth Test against England was Kanhai’s swashbuckling batting in a situation which required sobriety.
1958/59 was a watershed period for Garry Sobers and Rohan Kanhai and the West Indies as a whole. The end of the Pakistan tour saw the retirement of both Clyde Walcott and Everton Weekes who clearly had plenty of cricket left in them. As late as 1965, Weekes was scoring a century for the Barbados Colts against Australia. Frank Worrell took a two-year break from Test cricket to complete a degree at Manchester University. The middle order was now wide open to new talent. Basil Butcher and Joe Solomon were national choices to fill the gap left by the retirement by Weekes and Walcott. There was, in addition, the talented Collie Smith, every bit as explosive as Kanhai, and a great off-spinner. There was an air of newness and exuberance about the side which toured India in 1958.
After initial difficulties against Gupte’s leg-spin, Sobers and Solomon set out to destroy him in the second innings of the Second Test. Together  (Sobers 198, Solomon 86 both run out), they scored at the rate of six runs an over, and paved the way for Kanhai’s bruising knock of 256 in the Third test, which was his first Test hundred as Sobers’ 365 against Pakistan some months earlier has been his. A few months later, Kanhai was to score a double century (217) against Fazal Mahmood in the first West Indies tour to Pakistan. Basil Butcher batting most often at number six, scored centuries in the Third and Fifth Tests, and was the major architect of the West Indies Fourth Test win, while Kanhai and Solomon also played crucial roles. Basil Butcher had three other scores of 60 and above, aggregated 486 runs at the very good average of 69.43. Joe Solomon scored 351 over six appearances. Thrice not out, he averaged a fantastic 117. His reputation, for dependability and reliability was fully established on the tour. Yet neither Butcher nor Solomon were securely ensconced in the team.
On the 1960 M.C.C tour to the West Indies, a brilliant young Barbados team under Weekes’ captaincy beat England, and brought a wealth of new talent into focus. Seymour Nurse, who had scored 215 in that match immediately became a competition with Butcher for the Number Five or Six slot. It took only failures by Butcher- the First Test he made (14) coming after a Worrell/Sobers partnership of 399, when Butcher was out trying on captain’s instructions to force the pace, and the Second Test 9 and 9, coming when the entire team had failed twice -to convince the selectors to drop him from the 1960/61 tour to Australia, as well as the 1962 team against the Indian touring side.

The selectors, in a rare act of grace, retained Joe Solomon who had performed no better than Butcher against England. It may have been Solomon’s potential as an all-rounder-a technically correct batsman at home against leg spin, a fair leg-spinner himself, and a neat efficient fieldsman-which swung things in his favor. His inclusion in the First Test team provided two of the most memorable moments in the history of test cricket, when he twice ran out batsmen by throwing down the stumps, and converted an Australian romp home into a gripping tie.


Roy Fredericks said Joe Best is the toughest left arm spinner he has ever faced

Joe Doolam (Dullam) is my great friend. He is the cricketer I love most of all cricketers. On the Upper Corentyne Coast,  Joe Doolam, was most popularly  known as Joe Best. He endured a most unfortunate career. Joe Doolam made only one appearance for Berbice. He played in the game at Bourda. Fredericks and Etwaroo, in their contrasting styles, both recorded centuries against Essequebo. 

I never had any reason to think much of Joe Solomon. In fact, Joe Solomon is numbered amongst the players whom I hate. I believe Joe Solomon was fortunate. He was a substandard player at best. He was like a number of others.  Joe Solomon was a detriment to the development of the game in Berbice and in deed Guyana. Most importantly, he killed the aspirations of a number of players including Joe Best of # 64 Village, Corentyne.  The Cricket Board of Control was populated with persons who demonstrated bias and prejudices. BCBC may or may not practiced politics of out-right racism whenever selecting a representative team. However, players attached to the estate teams were preferred over those who were not. 
Joe Dullam bowled a grand total of ten overs in the match. He did not bat. And he never represented Berbice again. 
However, Roy Fredericks said Joe Best is the toughest left arm spinner he has ever faced. 

Friday, February 24, 2023

Performances against mediocrities aren't positive impressions

 This POW is sick and tired of the mediocrity paraded as WEST INDIES cricket.  January 2019 – February 2023. The current fans shenanigans respecting the performances of Tagenarine Chanderpaul and Gudakesh Motie, against Zimbabwe are perfect exhibits fans just want winning west indies cricket. The quality of the opposition is meaningless. Desmond Haynes, Roland Butcher and Andre Coley selections would be celebrated if the defeated Nigeria, Gambia, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Suriname and the Bahamas.  What then is the reason for West Indies fans to be celebrating the efforts of Tagenarine Chanderpaul and Gudakesh Motie against Zimbabwe? This POW can not be excited by performances against Zimbabwe. He expects Berbice to crush Zimbabwe, Ireland, Scotland, Netherlands, Nigeria, Gambia, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Suriname and the Bahamas.  in every format. 
This POW has news for those West Indies cricket fans. Tagenarine Chanderpaul and Gudakesh Motie are members of West Indies Under 19 world Cup 2014 squad. Tagenarine Chanderpaul and Gudakesh Motie did not receive Cricket West Indies Retainer Contracts. Tagenarine Chanderpaul and Gudakesh Motie were ready for international cricket prior to January 2019. However, the selectors from Courtney Browne to Desmond Haynes exhibited utter bias against Guyanese, Indians and spinners otherwise Anthony Bramble, Chandrapaul Hemraj and Veerasammy Permaul would have played test cricket under Jason Holder in January 2019 after they destroyed a mediocre Barbadian team with some nine test players in Barbados. 
It is unfortunate West Indies test selectors are so anti-Guyanese, anti-Indian, and anti-spinners. Otherwise, they would have honored Shivnarine Chanderpaul by selecting Tagenarine Chanderpaul, his son to play in at least the last test series with him. That would have the best send off ever in West Indies test cricket. At least, GCB selected Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Tagenarine Chanderpaul in their teams. This POW is not aware of the highest scores Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Tagenarine Chanderpaul recorded in the same innings for Guyana. 
The careers of Shimron Hetmyer, Anthony Bramble, Chandrapaul Hemraj, Rajendra Chandrika, Vishaul Singh, Veerasammy Permaul. Tagenarine Chanderpaul and Gudakesh Motie and several other cricketers from every affiliate except Barbados are perfect exhibits of what is so wrong with West Indies cricket. 

This POW has had enough with this recurring nonsense. It’s wherever Shimron Hetmyer is exhibiting his skills is where this POW will focus. Even if it is Hetmyer Family bottom house - yard affair.  It has to be more entertaining and interesting than the ugly grating of Kraigg Brathwaite and the other mediocrities. Imagine Raymon Reifer is a number three batsman? How ridiculous is that? This POW is shocked none has compared Raymon Reifer to Viv Richards. Holler at this POW within the next three years, if Tagenarine Chanderpaul records a half century against India, Australia and England. Also, holler within the next three years, if Gudakesh Motie records thirteen dismissals including eight first six batsmen against India, Australia and England 


Tuesday, February 21, 2023

CWI must fire Desmond Haynes, immediately. and Abolish the Selection Panel

 Roland Butcher and Desmond Haynes are ridiculous. Haynes keeps spewing nonsense. He continually runs his mouth expressing and exposing his narrow-minded and bias thought pattern. Haynes stated Obed McCoy, Anderson Phillips and Jayden Seales are injured. Obed McCoy was selected. However, medical clearance is required before Obed McCoy is included in matches. Haynes remains dumb on other quicks such as Dominic Drakes, Chemar Holder, Jair McAllister, Shemar Springer, Preston McSween, Ryan John, Colin Archibald, Nial Smith, Shamar Joseph, Ronsford Beaton and, Marquino Mindley. There is also no reference to the spinners; Veerasammy Permaul, Kevin Sinclair, Fabian Allen, Hayden Walsh, and Rahkeem Cornwall. 
Roland Butcher has messed up big time. Roland Butcher should be coaching 13-19 years old throughout the region. Why Roland Butcher why are you in this cesspool? Roland Butcher needs to distance himself from Desmond Haynes’ nonsense. Roland Butcher – please get out now. 
How could Desmond Haynes and Roland Butcher begin to imagine they will attempt to justify the exchange of Romario Shepherd for Evin Lewis as the only change from the atrocity, Desmond Haynes called a T20I World Cup 2022 squad? 
It is not possible to justify the exchange of Romario Shepherd for Evin Lewis as the only change from the atrocity Desmond Haynes calls a T20I World cup 2022 squad.
West Indies: Nicholas Pooran (c), Rovman Powell, Yannic Cariah, Johnson Charles, Sheldon Cottrell, Jason Holder, Akeal Hosein, Alzarri Joseph, Brandon King, Evin Lewis, Kyle Mayers, Obed Mccoy, Raymon Reifer, Odean Smith, and Shamarh Brooks.
  1. This POW advocates GCB and at least four of the other affiliates demand CWI fire Desmond Haynes, immediately. 
  2. This POW advocates GCB demands CWI reassign Roland Butcher to coaching 13-19 years old cricketers in the region.
  3. This POW advocates CWI hire coaches who will be the selectors, and managers of squads.  
  4. This POW advocates one head coach and one captain for the three genres tests, ODIs and T20Is. 
Is it evident, failed fitness tests, spinners, Indians, Leeward, Windward and Guyanese have just cause to sue from Courtney Browne to Desmond Haynes, Roland Butcher and Phil Simmons? 
Perhaps, WIPA and the affiliates need to be included as respondents for failing to protect the welfare of violated cricketers. 
Hetmyer, Rutherford, Hemraj, Narine, Lewis, Cornwall and the others must sue CWI and selectors for bias and ethnicity and other forms of discrimination and immoral practices. 
This POW declares Desmond Haynes, and Roland Butcher, CWI, the six affiliates, CARICOM and West Indies supporters are all guilty of this unacceptable act of gross negligent behavior and utter disrespect. They are grossly disgusting,
  1. The coaches must be the selectors. 
  2. The coaches must be no more than nine years removed from international cricket. 
  3. The coaches must have successful careers as test, ODI and T20I players. 
  4. The coaches must be transparent. 
  5. The coaches must publish a depth chart for every genre of the game for every region.  
Who are the top six batsmen, spinners, quicks, wicketkeepers and the best possible teams for test, ODI and T20I?
Test = Brandon King, Tagenarine Chanderpaul, Shimron Hetmyer, Kraigg Brathwaite, Sherfane Rutherford, Kacey Carty, Allick Athanaze,  Nicholas Pooran, Shai Hope, Kimani Melius
Wicket-Keepers=
Quicks = Alzarri Joseph, Jayden Seales, Chemar Holder, Preston McSween, Colin Archibald, McKenny Clarke, Jared McAllister. Shemar Springer, Ryan John, Nial Smith, and Shamar Joseph 
Spinners = Rahkeem Cornwall, Gudakesh Motie, Veerasammy Permaul, 
ODI/T20I = group
BATSMEN= Brandon King, Nicholas Pooran, Shai Hope, Shimron Hetmyer, Sherfane Rutherford, Rovman Powell, Kyle Mayers, Allick Athanaze, Kacey Carty (ODI), Johnson Charles, Andre Fletcher, Evin Lewis, 
WICKET-KEEPERS =
BOWLERS=Jason Holder, Preston McSween, Alzarri Joseph, Obed McCoy, Odean Smith, Keemo Paul, Chemar Holder, Shemar Springer, Ryan John, Romario Shepherd, Jared McAllister, Brathwaite, Drakes, Cottrell, Russell, Colin Archibald McKenny Clarke 
SPINNERS= Fabian Allen, Rahkeem Cornwall, Akeal Hosein, Gudakesh Motie, Veerasammy Permaul,  Sunil Narine, Kevin Sinclair, Hayden Walsh, 
  1. CWI must abolish the selection panel. 
  2. Coaches must be the selectors. 
  3. Coaches and players must be held accountable for performances and results.
Otherwise, this charade interpreted to be West Indies cricket will remain securely handcuffed by mediocre Barbadians at the bottom of world cricket. 
Perhaps, Hetmyer was not approached. Otherwise, he may have rebuffed their approach. This POW is of the opinion Hetmyer has several legitimate reasons to file grievances against CWI respecting retainer contracts, failed fitness tests, omission from every test match November 2019 – March 2023. Joseph Reds Perreira warned CWI is losing Hetmyer in Spring 2021. CWI upper management and the Presidents of the six affiliates did exactly nothing to change the trajectory. Some three years of nonsense gave rise to Hetmyer preferring Berbice above, over and beyond what is paraded as West Indies teams including T20 World Cup 2022. The choices of Butcher and Haynes are in South Africa. Hetmyer is in Berbice preparing to participate in GCB inter-county competition. After the tournament Hetmyer will be in India for IPL 2023. 
This POW totally supports Hetmyer. This POW has two issues with Hetmyer.  He has not filed law suits against CWI. And more importantly, Hetmyer has not recorded a century in three years. 
This POW is rooting for Hetmyer to score at least one 31-44 deliveries century in IPL 2023.