Selectors blasted over Simmons omission
Published:Thursday | December 23, 2010 | 9:21 AM
Lendl Simmons’ local club president Patrick Rampersad is irate over the opener’s continued exclusion from West Indies teams and has blasted regional selectors over the issue.
The 25-year-old Trinidadian last played for West Indies on the One-Day International tour of Australia in January but has failed to make the team since then.
There was also no place for the right-hander in the 30-man preliminary West Indies squad for next year’s Cricket World Cup, prompting Rampersad to say the latest snub is truly amazing, unbelievable.
Ramperad is president of the Merryboys Cricket Club.
He says it seems that there is a deliberate effort on the part of a certain selector or selectors not to select Simmons and finish him off.
Simmons and the West Indies Cricket Board appear to be at loggerheads over issues pertaining to the Australia tour.
In October, the Board claimed that Simmons had agreed to a critical meeting regarding his profession but had failed to attend and had resorted to communicating with the Board through players union, West Indies Players Association.