The primary of two Twenty20 internationals between India and the West Indies lately held in Florida changed into a mystery. As the game drew to its very last ranges, with India desiring 8 runs to win off the final over added via the experienced Dwayne Bravo, it turned into substantial that there has been a lot strategizing among the bowler and Kieron Pollard. The captain, Carlos Brathwaite came up to sign up for the conversations, however there has been no question as to who have been pulling the strings. At the clicking convention that observed the second one game, Brathwaite hailed the senior players for his or her willingness to offer advice. "I want to publicly mention the senior players inside the group. they have got all been nice, they have got all been supportive, and every time I ask for guidelines they have got given me recommendations, and from time to time I don't even should ask and that they have been willing." It isn't sudden that Pollard and Bravo could have ideas to offer in such dicey conditions. both captain their respective Caribbean highest quality League (CPL) teams; both are among the maximum adept and sought-after gamers in the T20 recreation; each have performed well over 300 games in cricket's shortest layout; and each could have seen the type of scenario that played out near the give up of the aforementioned come across a number of times. certainly, there is hardly any state of affairs that might arise in a sport that could be totally in contrast to any that they had met before. Famed Swiss statistician Jacob Bernoulli had this rule: "if you do some thing for lengthy enough, each possible final results will arise." Bravo's and Pollard's brains might've by using now been wired to recognise nearly instinctively what to do in nearly each scenario. as compared to the two Trinidadians, Brathwaite, as astounding a young man as he's, is a neophyte. though proficient and clever, he simplest has fifty seven T20 games to his call, which means he could no longer have built up the reservoir of information that his West Indies teammates have. This obvious question then arises: Why isn't Bravo or Pollard captain? ideally, certainly one of them ought to be. but with all of the upheavals and what many could term "politics" in West Indies cricket, who knows what the real motives are? And while it is right that they're not reluctant to offer advice, and Brathwaite quite satisfied to welcome their wise suggest, there can be no substitute for having the most appropriate guy inside the role. Which brings us to the other West Indies captain, Jason Holder. similar to his fellow Barbadian and West Indies T20 captain, it's far obvious Holder is notable talented and clever. Like Brathwaite, he turned into also surpassed the reigns too early in his career. many of us who follow Caribbean cricket were reasonably at ease with the choices to rent him first as captain of the one Day global (ODI) team, and then as captain of the test team. We had been incorrect. To make sure, there had been no longer quite a few options once the selectors determined to move away from Denesh Ramdin. however the captaincy have to now not have gone to such an green young man, one that has now not yet mounted himself as a consistently capable player. And what changed into the compelling reason for not letting Ramdin keep for a while longer? Holder nonetheless has a protracted way to go in developing his talents. To have confused him with the duties of captaincy turned into now not handiest unwise, it become unfair - unfair to him and unfair to West Indies cricket. moreover, it was no longer like the tall all-rounder changed into taking the controls of a well-oiled device that would function almost like clockwork, requiring best very truthful path. as an alternative, he turned into requested to lead a aspect suffering to compete. In that, Holder's scenario is not like that of Brathwaite's. The West Indies T20 side is exceedingly competent. He could have a much easier time adjusting. there may be studies that shows that older captains are higher able to keep subject in a sports crew. subject, we might all agree, is important to a crew's reliability, a trait for which the West Indies isn't well known. Holder has constantly been some of the youngest individuals of the team and is West Indies' 2nd youngest check captain. The truth that his aspect has generally been a fledgling one is all the more reason the selectors to have chosen a greater skilled chief. Predictably, Holder's file as captain has now not been wonderful. beneath his watch, the take a look at group has persisted its downward slide, losing six and drawing 3 inside the nine video games performed. His ODI file is barely higher, with seven wins and 14 defeats in 21 suits. And yet it's far very dubious that the quality of Holder's captaincy has contributed in any way to his team's bad performance. he is frequently criticised for being tactically unaware, however it might hardly ever have mattered if he had been the most foxy tactician in the sport. via and big, in case your team isn't always as proper as your competitor's, you'll lose. It was quite surprising then, to examine that Holder become reprimanded with the aid of chairman of selectors Courtney Browne and effectively placed on probation for the upcoming series towards Pakistan within the United Arab Emirates (UAE). His overall performance had higher enhance at some point of the Pakistan series, he was reportedly told, or his area thereafter may be in jeopardy. that might be truthful sufficient under regular circumstances. Holder's batting, bowling and captaincy does need to enhance. however the selectors ought to keep in mind whether or not they're complicit in what has been his insufficient performance thus far. Have they pondered that asking the 24-year-old to steer the West Indies' underperforming ODI and check teams could have been too much for him at this level of his adventure in cricket. As great a younger guy as he is, it just is probably that he observed the burden too heavy to hold and it has impeded his development as a player. moreover, putting even more pressure on the younger man's shoulders will probably now not deliver out the pleasant in him. it might appear that greater tact changed into required, especially as they might not be blameless for him being wherein he's. One recalls that Brian Lara was located on probation by way of the West Indies board after a humiliating tour to South Africa and prior to the advent of the huge Australians for his or her 1998-99 tour of the West Indies. but Lara become then a batting wizard in his late Twenties who proceeded to conjure up a number of the most magical batting ever visible. He additionally had at his command the bowling expertise of Curtly Ambrose and Courtney Walsh. The 4-check collection become drawn 2-2.