“Carlos Brathwaite Can’t Repeat World T20 Heroics Every Time,” Says Courtney Browne
Feb 28, 2017 at 5:43 PM
Courtney Browne, the Chairman of selectors of West Indies cricket team has said that they can’t expect Carlos Brathwaite to repeat his World T20 final heroics every time he comes out to bat as the selector thinks that Brathwaite is still a young man and needs to develop like any other cricketer,
“What you must understand is this is still a young man. If we expect Carlos to repeat what he did in the World Cup every single time, we’re going to fool ourselves. Carlos needs to develop like any other cricketer. We’ve dug ourselves in a massive hole over the years, there’s no quick fix to our problem. It is about hard work. It’s not about ‘you’ve had five games, you have not performed’ so just throw the player away,” Browne told a Caribbean radio station
Brathwaite has had seen success and failures in his short career as he shot to fame after hitting four back to back sixes to win the T20 World Cup for West Indies. He was then appointed as the T20 captain but hasn’t improved as a player since then,
“He’s a young player who is a very exciting player on his day, who hasn’t played a lot of international cricket either. He’s an investment and we all know if we get him right what he can produce for us. Carlos’s strike rate would be more than the other bowlers because of the time of the games when he bowls,” Browne said
“Carlos and a lot of the other players, we have players now who actually want to play, we have players who are committed, they are self-starters, they work hard. When you see players who are doing that, you know that you will be able to create that environment that is conducive to producing cricketers that can perform consistently,” he added.
Along with Brathwaite forms, the performance of the team as a whole has also gone down. The chairman of selectors said that they are ready to give a player an extended run so as to nurture them and give them ample of time to develop,
“We are number eight in the world because we put ourselves there by playing bad cricket over the years by making bad decisions. When you look at our players, there are some who have been given a little extension because you want them to develop,” Browne said.
“We don’t want to have a case where you have a whole bunch of players, like what used to happen in the past, where we had so many players, all of them had games under their belts but none ever got a good extension or fair run to help them to develop. We need to develop cricketers.”