Sack Sammy now

What else should we do? The captaincy shake up has come back to haunt him and Dr. Shallow. Dr. Shallow isn’t playing on the field, his resignation won’t help. The T20I whitewash is unforgivable, we were the third best ranked team in the world when Rovman Powell was removed, now we are sixth.

What has changed between then and now, and it’s the captaincy. Shai Hope our best whiteball batter does not make him a great captain. Besides, he is opening the batting, wicketkeeping and setting the field, the guy only has two hands, it’s too much for him. He won’t back down from the challenge but the guy isn’t a robot.

Are any of the players listening to Ravi Rampaul? I agree with him, why not go for the yorker while the ball is new or during the powerplay? The team analyst, Avenesh Seeteram, what is he watching on those fancy computers? In the third T20I, by the 13th over, the run rate was 10 and over, let’s give Tim David crab and dumplings in the slot on off stump, and when he got to fifty, let’s give him some more, he seemed to love it! Daren Sammy of all people, would have told Dwayne Bravo during his captaincy, to bowl full and wide, set the fine leg very straight, he’d rather concede a wide than a six.

Get out of the over at a run a ball at least. It’s a batting friendly track, fine, bowl the slower ball, once they connect at full pace, it will travel on a smaller ground!

For God’s sake, Daren Sammy is running down the stairs with instructions every minute to the players on the boundary, he still thinks he is captain, that’s why he didn’t want Rovman Powell at the helm, because he can’t control him. I suspect Sammy is micromanaging the team, hovering over every session and every over. We’ve got to sack him, “the captain”, the excuse can’t be “Australia is a great team”, he needs to stop living in the past and let the team breathe.

Kendell Karan

Chaguanas