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Daren Sammy needs to stop living in the past, he is not captain of the West Indies anymore. My assertions were right, Sammy is behaving like a captain and not a coach, bossy and picky too. As a coach, your job is to facilitate the game, because the players are the ones playing not the coach, implicit coaching is the ideal style for any sport. The rumours of the dressing room bust-up during the T20 World Cup in the Caribbean is now confirmed, it was true. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every minute, Sammy is running down the pavilion stairs to give instructions to Rovman Powell, he was playing on eggshells. Cricket is not a perfect story, every decision is an educated gamble, it could go either way. Sammy won two World Cups as captain, fine, that was him as a player managing his players on the field at that time. If the excuse was Rovman Powell’s performance as a player in the team, then why is Shai Hope named as captain who isn’t a first choice in the T20 format? <\/p>

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It’s clear he had a hand in that, it could still be alleged. Perhaps Kraigg Brathwaite smelled the rat and said no need for a Test captain, so he’ll call it a day and focus on his batting, let Sammy and Seeteram set the field and declare from the stands. I nominate Alzarri Joseph as a Test and T20 captain, the next seasoned player for West Indies, all format player, he’ll get to set his own field too, lol! I challenge Daren Sammy to settle the apparent xenophobia, the haters, and the alleged politics by beating England and Australia across formats, most importantly a test series win against Australia.<\/p>

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