GEORGE­TOWN, Guyana, – Leg­endary for­mer West In­dies cap­tain Sir Clive Lloyd be­lieves that Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) made a mis­take in nam­ing 33-year-old Jomel War­ri­can as its Test vice-cap­tain, sug­gest­ing they should have giv­en the re­spon­si­bil­i­ty to one of the younger can­di­dates.

His com­ments have come a week af­ter CWI an­nounced Ros­ton Chase as its new Test cap­tain, with the 33-year-old be­com­ing the 10th Bar­ba­di­an to lead the re­gion­al side.

Fel­low Bar­ba­di­an War­ri­can, who has played 19 Test match­es for the West In­dies, was al­so in­tro­duced as vice-cap­tain.

How­ev­er, Sir Clive hint­ed that 26-year-old Trinida­di­an wick­et­keep­er/bats­man Joshua Da Sil­va – who was among six peo­ple in­ter­viewed for the Test cap­tain­cy – would have been a bet­ter choice con­sid­er­ing his age.

Speak­ing on WESN TV’s Face of Sports show on Fri­day, Sir Clive said he hoped the younger play­ers who were un­suc­cess­ful would not be dis­heart­ened.

“Well I hope that they are not dis­il­lu­sioned. Keep the faith, what is for you is for you.

“My moth­er al­ways used to say that if you don’t get it now, you will get it just now, so the young­sters have to keep the faith,” Sir Clive, wide­ly re­gard­ed as one of the great­est ever cap­tains said.

“That is where Crick­et West In­dies went wrong. You can’t give a 33-year-old and an­oth­er 33-year-old [the cap­tain­cy and vice-cap­tain­cy]. You should have gone for a 26-year-old so that in two years’ time he would have all of that ex­pe­ri­ence and then he’d be able to take over the man­tle. That is what I would have done.”

CMC