Di­rec­tor on the West In­dies Crick­et Board (WICB) Bal­dath Ma­habir says he is one of the sup­port­ers of Dar­ren Sam­my and is look­ing for good things from him. Ma­habir, who hails from T&T and is one of this coun­try's rep­re­sen­ta­tive on the WICB, said he was one of the di­rec­tors who threw his sup­port be­hind Sam­my. "The oth­er main con­tenders for the cap­tain­cy elim­i­nat­ed them­selves by not ac­cept­ing the cen­tral re­tain­er con­tracts and Sam­my in my view was the best of the lot that re­mained. "I am a sup­port­er of Sam­my and I am look­ing for­ward to good things from him. I think that his heart and head is in the right place and he wants to do well for the West In­dies."

Look­ing back at the 0-0 rain-marred se­ries in Sri Lan­ka, Ma­habir said: "We have to be hap­py with any pos­i­tive move­ment right now and we are re­al­ly look­ing for­ward to the team do­ing even bet­ter. "Al­though the se­ries was af­fect­ed bad­ly by rain we saw a lot from the team that was pos­i­tive and hope­ful­ly they can build on it." Ma­habir said he had no prob­lems with Ke­iron Pol­lard, Dwayne Bra­vo and Chris Gayle not play­ing in the up­com­ing re­gion­al T20 crick­et se­ries.

"I have no prob­lems with these guys not play­ing in the se­ries be­cause they are look­ing at bet­ter­ment for them­selves in terms of fi­nances and we have to re­spect that. "One has to max­imise one's earn po­ten­tial and I am one who is not up­set with the play­ers for their ac­tion. I want to wish them all the best and hope­ful­ly when a win­dow of op­por­tu­ni­ty presents it­self, they can rep­re­sent the West In­dies. "You see this hap­pen­ing all the time in world foot­ball, where the top play­ers have on­ly lim­it­ed chances of play­ing for their coun­try with their club com­mit­ments be­ing very hec­tic."