De­scrib­ing it as one of the “worst de­ci­sions ever”, for­mer West In­dies cap­tain Dwayne Bra­vo has chas­tised Crick­et West In­dies (CWI) for its de­ci­sion to sack T20 cap­tain Rov­man Pow­ell.

In a post on so­cial me­dia plat­form In­sta­gram on Tues­day, a day af­ter CWI an­nounced that Pow­ell would be re­placed as West In­dies T20 cap­tain by Shai Hope, Bra­vo con­demned the move and re­ferred to it as an “in­jus­tice”.

The post was ac­com­pa­nied by a stat that showed Pow­ell had won 19 of 37 match­es as cap­tain and lost 17, while one match was a no de­ci­sion.

Bra­vo, who helped the West In­dies cap­ture the 2012 and 2016 World Twen­ty20 ti­tles, main­tained that CWI had treat­ed Pow­ell un­fair­ly de­spite his role in help­ing the T20 team rise from ninth to third in the ICC’s rank­ings.

“@Windi­escrick­et once again you guys prove to the peo­ple of the Caribbean and the crick­et world that the in­jus­tices to­wards play­ers con­tin­ues!

“As a for­mer play­er and a fan of WI crick­et, this is eas­i­ly one of the worst de­ci­sions ever,” Bra­vo said in his state­ment.

“Rov­man Pow­ell tak­ing over the cap­tain­cy when our T20 team was in ninth spot and was able to move up to third sport in the rank­ings and this is how you guys re­pay him?

“The bad treat­ment to­wards play­ers when would it stop! This is so sad on all lev­els, make it make sense,” he fur­ther added.

(CMC)