West Indies wicket-keeper Denesh Ramdin has lashed out at the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) for apparently leaving him out of the squad for the upcoming Test series against India.
The WICB hasn’t publicly announced the squad that will be going for the four-test series but Ramdin took to Twitter to let his fans know that he had been dumped from the squad and blamed new chairman of selectors Courtney Browne for the decision.
Ramdin finished with scores of 59 and 62 in his last two innings during the West Indies’ tour of Australia last year. The former West Indies Test captain mentioned these stats in his tweets addressed to his fans.
Directing his attack towards former West Indian cricketer and Chairman of selectors, Courtney Browne, Ramdin went on to say that in the duration of his career, he had not made the mistake of “dropping any batsman to score a double century against West Indies”.
The West Indies Cricket team has had a long-standing tussle with the WICB who they claim haven’t been supportive of the team. After becoming the first team to win the T20 World Cup twice, skipper Darren Sammy launched a scathing attack on the West Indies Cricket Board in the post-match interview making it evident that the teams journey had been a hard one, with a lot many adversaries.
In 2012, Ramdin had taken out a piece of paper reading “YEH VIV, TALK NAH” after scoring a century against England after Vivian Richard had been critical of him.
Ramdin had taken over wicket keeping duties from Courtney Brown in 2005. Since then he has played 74 matches and scored 2898 run at an average of 25.87. He also captained the team briefly in 13 matches.
India is set to play four Tests against the West Indies, starting with the opening Test at North Sound, Antigua from 21 July.
(With inputs from PTI)
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