Col­in Croft

For the lat­ter three, per­ma­nent re­moval should be ef­fect­ed im­me­di­ate­ly. None of these three can bring any­thing more or new, to the ta­ble. Un­for­tu­nate­ly, Sam­my has been ap­point­ed West In­dies cap­tain to end of In­dia's tour in Ju­ly. We are stuck with this stone around our necks, go­ing fur­ther down, gasp­ing for air. Help! Not many en­hanced their rep­u­ta­tions in Asia. De­von Smith, sur­pris­ing­ly and Ke­mar Roach, ex­pect­ed­ly, did well. Dar­ren Bra­vo, Ravi Ram­paul and An­dre Rus­sell are on­ly just cred­i­ble. They are still rel­a­tive­ly young. The re-in­clu­sion of Dwayne Bra­vo, De­nesh Ramdin and Mar­lon Samuels will, at least, help. It is cer­tain­ly time for re­new­al, es­pe­cial­ly with the next ICC World Cup not un­til 2015 in Aus­tralia and New Zealand. West In­dies crick­et has four years, min­i­mum, to re­flect and re­view, then recharge. In re­al­i­ty, much more as will be ad­dressed in sub­se­quent ar­ti­cles, will al­so have to evolve. Mean­while, the WICB has its meet­ing this week­end in An­tigua & Bar­bu­da. Maybe they should all re­sign. Most of us can­not be­lieve that this bunch and its se­lec­tors can con­tin­ue this way. Un­for­tu­nate­ly, noth­ing will change there. We will sim­ply con­tin­ue on, with this un­end­ing dri­v­el.