Why Daren Sammy made changes for the West Indies vs Australia test series
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What changes did Daren Sammy make for the West Indies vs Australia test series?
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This is Kimo Roach, and I listen to the Caribbean Cricket Podcast. Yes, yes, yes, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another edition of the Caribbean Cricket Podcast. I'm on half the Caribbean Cricket Podcast, Mashal St. Patrick Hewitt, and Santoki is not here. He's travelling the world, as ever, so I'm here on my ones, delivering the show, delivering the content. First things first... I hate to say I told you so. Let's just get that out of the way off the jump. Do you know how many people go back and watch the archive episode? Go back and read our tweets. Do you know how many people messaged me when I did those Brandon King videos saying he's going to get in the West Indies Test Squad? Remember, I did these videos months ago.
right? I said, he's going to get called up. I had bare uncles messaging me going, you don't know what you're talking about. He's not done enough to get into the test squad. And whether that's true or whether that's not true, the point is, so said, so done. I'm tired of telling people, you might not like the Caribbean Cricket Podcast. You might have an issue with what we say and how we go about saying what we say. But the one thing you can never criticise Caribbean Cricket Podcast for is we look at the thing forensically. Yeah, we bust some jokes, we bust some laughs along the way, but we look at this thing forensically. And more importantly, we have the receipts. You can go back and watch plenty of episodes where we directly said, I think Shea Holt's going to get back into the squad.
I even said that I thought Shea Holt would be test captain. And by all accounts, that's what Sammy wanted. But Holt said no, right? But he's back in the squad. King is in the squad for the first time properly. in line to make a Test match debut if you go back and watch the press conference with Casey Carty after the second ODI in Cardiff if you go back and watch that if you can get access to it one of the copycat cricket channels will have posted it up for views right if you go and watch that you'll hear my voice because I was the only Caribbean journalist there right and you'll hear me say to Casey Carty in that interview do you think or do you hold ambition to be in the test squad for Australia?
And the reason why I asked Casey Carty that question is because in my head, my line of thinking was this. The man's just scored three centuries, right, in quick succession. Couldn't give a damn that it's in white ball cricket. It's three international centuries. We have a test series coming up against Australia. Runs is currency. Sammy Dunn told you lot from time. There's no red ball and there's no red ball over there and white ball over there. Those days are done in West Indies cricket. We don't have a deep enough talent pool to be siphoning off people to Red Bull cricket, OJ cricket and T20 cricket. That was a dunce strategy. It doesn't work. If a man scores three centuries in quick succession in OJ cricket, you might as well put him in the test squad.
I know some of you uncles don't want to hear that, but I couldn't care less. I couldn't care less. We are not in a position for people to be. for people to be dictating and saying, well, until they score runs in red ball cricket, they're not ready for test cricket. We don't have time to waste on all that. If you think a man has got talent and they back it up with international runs in 50 over cricket, they've got to be in the test squad. It's that simple for me. I'm not bothered if you don't agree. I'm just telling you how I see it. So when I asked Casey Carty the question in Cardiff, that's because in my head I was like, this guy's going to get called up into the test squad. So let me try and see if that's the line of thinking that's going on.
Now, here's the thing. Casey gave a diplomatic answer. He was like, well, you know, others made runs in the domestic championship. So if I'm overlooked, I get it. But obviously I still want to play test cricket. Great PR answer.
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