Powell is ordinary, by any stretch of the imagination, No other international team would pick him. He would struggle in grade cricket in Perth. Anyone can bowl the odd unplayable delivery, that makes us good backyard cricketers.
No one is arguing that Powell is anything but a terrible bowler, so I don't know what you hope to achieve here. I've had my say on it.
And for the record it wasn't my point. It was a point made after the Brisbane test by a commentator who thought he should be captain, and the argument that his record wasn't good enough to be in the team as a batsman alone wasn't a strong enough one because of the dearth of talent around made that argument null and void. For example players such as Marshall previously being picked on thin First Class record/exerience.
But Ganga was also picked on thin FC experience. Sure he was picked too early as well and has since improved, but the fact is that the player he is now is far from the player he was back in 1998/99. It's a very similar situation to Marshall - a teenager who was picked on potential. That both of them have since failed and been discarded doesn't help Ganga's case. It actually shows some measure of good, if belated, selection policy,
Only if Marshall was being persisted with would there be a point there.
But looking at it now sure there may not be a place for him, but when the top order was failing and Gayle's captaincy was under fire it looked like a good idea. When they lose the next test it will come up again.
I've always been a very keen admirer of Ganga's captaincy. I'm sure there's evidence on this forum of me calling him the best leader in the region, because he is undoubtedly that. Head and shoulders above the rest. He instills discipline, commands respect, is always thinking, proactive and inspirational. But he simply is not a good enough Test batsman. Believe you me, I wanted as much as anyone for him to prove himself at Test level. I still avidly follow his FC career, and I was overjoyed when he scored those 2 hundreds against Australia, a seeming lifetime ago.
But to my dismay, and probably that of a struggling team needing strong and committed leadership, he just has not kicked on. But he's a realist, and I'm sure he too understands why he is being overlooked.
All that said, the selectors' reason for not picking him for the Australia tour were "he hasn't been scoring runs domestically" which is certainly not the case. But that just proves how utterly useless the West Indies selectors are, if they misplace their stats so appallingly.
