The art of cricket selection

Everyone in the Caribbean is the best West Indian selector but how many know about the art of selection?

If there is one thing we do best in the Caribbean it’s cuss. From the minute the T20 World Cup squad was selected the selectors, head coach and captain were likely on borrowed time.

Succeed and they would receive praise through gritted teeth, fail and all the knives would be out. We of course all know what happened and predictably media and fans alike came out swinging.

Any positives that the selectors had brought to the set up in their tenure were immediately forgotten (from the introduction of Bonner, Mayers, Da Silva, Hosein to Jayden Seales), the win percentage and data analysis now meant nothing.

Yet at the Caribbean Cricket Podcast we’ve already gone down the road of analysing whether the decision to dispense with their services was the right one.

What few Caribbean media outlet have done since is look at the selection process in isolation and assess the pros and cons. You can change the selectors but you cant change the sub-standard raw materials. Doing the former is just a cosmetic edit to satisfy the baying crowd who want a scapegoat.

With that in mind we interviewed former West Indies selector Miles Bascombe to break down how the selection process works and cricket administration itself.

Have a listen and make up your own mind. Could you really be a West Indies selector?

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