Sev­en days af­ter be­ing stubbed by the se­lec­tion com­mit­tee of Crick­et West In­dies, Dar­ren Bra­vo has de­cid­ed to take a break from crick­et.

For­mer West In­dies bat­ting leg­end Desmond Haynes an­nounced a 15-mem­ber squad fol­low­ing the con­clu­sion of the CG Su­per 50 tour­na­ment for a three-match ODI se­ries against Eng­land next month.

The 34-year-old, who last played for West In­dies in Feb­ru­ary 2022, con­tin­ued to be left out de­spite top­ping the run charts in the 2023-24 Su­per50 Cup, where he scored 416 runs ( one cen­tu­ry and three half-cen­turies) at an av­er­age of 83.20.

It is not yet clear how long Bra­vo in­tends to step away from the game.

On Sat­ur­day night he wrote on his In­sta­gram page: "I've tak­en some time to pon­der and won­der what's my next step mov­ing for­ward as a crick­eter. At this point in my ca­reer it's not easy or should I say it takes a lot to con­tin­ue to find the en­er­gy, pas­sion, com­mit­ment, and dis­ci­pline to be able to per­form to the best of my abil­i­ty and put my­self in a po­si­tion to make my re­turn to in­ter­na­tion­al crick­et. With­out any lev­el of com­mu­ni­ca­tion, I’ve been left in a very dark place. At the mo­ment there are three teams rep­re­sent­ing the re­gion in mul­ti­ple for­mats/se­ries. That’s ap­prox­i­mate­ly 40–45 play­ers and if I can’t be in any of these teams af­ter com­pet­ing in our re­gion­al tour­na­ments and scor­ing runs, there­fore they are ba­si­cal­ly telling me that the writ­ing is on the wall. I’m not giv­ing up but I be­lieve it’s best to step away just for a bit and maybe make some room for a young and up­com­ing tal­ent. I will end by wish­ing each and every one all the very best. “I’ve lived my dream” 46 #AGEISJU­SANUM­BER.

Bra­vo has played 56 Tests, 122 ODIs, and 26 T20Is for West In­dies since mak­ing his in­ter­na­tion­al de­but in 2009. While chief se­lec­tor Desmond Haynes de­fend­ed his ex­clu­sion be­cause West In­dies were look­ing to give longer runs to younger bat­ters such as Al­ick Athanaze and Kea­cy Car­ty - par­tic­u­lar­ly giv­en that the next ODI World Cup is four years away - the de­ci­sion has not gone down well in all quar­ters.

Bra­vo's old­er broth­er Dwayne, a for­mer West In­dies cap­tain, hit out against the se­lec­tors, ac­cus­ing them of "mis­treat­ment, dis­re­spect, and dis­hon­esty to­wards play­ers".

An­tigua will host the first two ODIs of the West In­dies-Eng­land se­ries, on De­cem­ber 3 and 6, be­fore the se­ries con­cludes in Bar­ba­dos on De­cem­ber 9. The teams are al­so sched­uled to play five T20Is, from De­cem­ber 12 to 21, in Bar­ba­dos, Grena­da, and Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Since the an­nounce­ment of the team that ex­clud­ed Bra­vo, his broth­er Bwayne a for­mer West In­dies ODI cap­tain, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Crick­et Board, for­mer West In­dies play­ers Bats­man Phi­lo Wal­lace and pac­er An­tho­ny Gray, have ques­tioned Bra­vo's com­mis­sion and have asked what cri­te­ria was used to over-look his per­for­mance de­spite be­ing the league's top runs scor­er in the Caribbean for 2023.