The fre­quent in­jury to West In­dies crick­eters is a mat­ter of con­cern. It has reached the point where it is now em­bar­rass­ing and one won­ders whether se­lec­tors are hav­ing the ben­e­fit of re­ports of med­ical fit­ness pri­or to se­lect­ing play­ers. In­deed, is past med­ical his­to­ry part of the se­lec­tion process? If not, it now seems in­cum­bent.

We have heard of rec­om­men­da­tions from var­i­ous quar­ters that psy­chol­o­gists and psy­chi­a­trists should be ap­point­ed to coun­sel and of­fer ad­vice to our teams. How­ev­er, I am won­der­ing whether the phys­io­ther­a­pist has not been too hasty in de­clar­ing play­ers "un­fit." Af­ter all, our past great play­ers seem nev­er to have been vis­it­ed by any­thing re­sem­bling the spate of in­juries with which our cur­rent play­ers seem to suf­fer, of late.

Is it a di­etary prob­lem which has been vis­it­ing the re­gion? We need to ex­am­ine.

Er­rol OC Cu­pid

Trinci­ty, Tacarigua