West Indies cricket team selectors, under the gun over the years for a number of choices they have made in selecting the regional teams, will soon reveal their selection policy to the Caribbean.This was the word from CEO of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) Michael Muirhead.Muirhead told the T&T Guardian that the selectors go on the talent they have to work with and make their decisions, but admitted that sometimes the selections are puzzling to the population.He said as a result of the fans' responses to some of the team selections, the board may have to look at a transparent process which will let the West Indies public in on how the teams are chosen."We are more and more thinking in the direction of getting the selectors to reveal their selection policy to people, so they could understand how they come up with certain teams," Muirhad said."If we take the 60 or so of us in this room right now and we name a best West Indies team, I would be very surprised if we had two people coming up with the same team."A lot of the time when we look at our team, we think that it was probably not the best team, but a lot of the time we make that call in hindsight."He added, "I am not here to defend the selectors, but what I can tell you is that they do the best job that they can do."
Fans must be in loop
The furore over the selectors' choices again developed after the Windies' recent humiliation at the hands of the lowly placed New Zealand. The team lost the test series and T-20-series 2-0 and tied the ODI series 2-2.The fans, however, were often disappointed with the team's performances in the field, where some players clearly showed they were out of depth.But Muirhead said the issue of team selection was not a recent phenomenon."We will not all agree with the teams they pick and this has been happening ever since," he said."However, we think that we have to now let the people know what we look for and what are the requirements for selection so they can understand the selections."Sometimes, the selectors would choose a team and pick the players at the time of selection who are performing well, and they then go out there and do not perform and the selectors get the stick."It is a thankless job, but we are looking to get the fans understand the policy a lot more as we move forward."