West Indies Cricket Fans Forum
Darren Sammy has been considered a lucky man to have captained the West Indies
Darren Sammy has been considered a lucky man to have captained the West Indies, once the champions of the world and the team considered by many to be the greatest that ever played the game.
Sammy was a good player, but in the opinion of many, he was not one good enough to make the Test team or to captain the team.
Sammy, by his own admission, was put into an uncomfortable position.
Whatever the reasons were for his selection, he was catapulted into the company of men like Frank Worrell, Garry Sobers, Rohan Kanhai, Clive Lloyd, and Viv Richards as captain of the once brilliant West Indies.
To make matters worse, on the day of one of the West Indies biggest triumphs, on the day when Carlos Brathwaite worked his magic with the bat, he publicly broadsided the president of the West Indies Board.
His relationship with West Indies cricket has never been good since that day in 2016 when the West Indies won the World T20 Championship.
That day marked his last day as a West Indies player.
A week or so ago, however, in an interview with ESPN on the state of West Indies cricket, Sammy said something that surprised me.
Sammy said that "the lack of senior players in domestic cricket may be hurting the development of new and young talent".
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