Gayle re-appointed as captain

by WIFAN Sun 01 Nov 2009, 15:10

http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20091101/sports/sports10.htmlGleaner gets the scoop

Common sense has prevailed. The senior players want him as captain, Sarwan and Bravo even stated this publicly. Apparently they have also chosen the squad but they are awaiting ratification by the WICB (I don't like the sound of that. Maybe the selectors didn't choose enough scabs?).

by Henry Sun 01 Nov 2009, 15:30

Ganga just isn't a good enough batsman unfortunately.

by DJ_Smerk Sun 01 Nov 2009, 15:30

He got found out in England.

by JKLever Sun 01 Nov 2009, 15:31

Or perhaps he wasn't that good to begin with...

by WIFAN Sun 01 Nov 2009, 15:41

DJ_Smerk wrote:He got found out in ~~England~~ all test playing nations apart from Bangladesh.

That's more like it. He had one excellent series against Australia at home in 2003 when he scored 2 centuries but that was it. He is a great leader at domestic level because he scores enough runs to have the respect of his team-mates. When he was captain in England after Ronnie suffered a shoulder injury he started trying to direct fielders and they just looked at him distastefully as if to say 'wtf is this guy who can't even bat half as well as me ordering me around for?'.

The same thing happened on the infamous West Indies A tour of England in 2001 when Tino Best, Suliemann Benn and Runako Morton ganged up on him and argued with almost every decision he made in a very public way.