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    "title": "Bravo has paid price for role in strike: former Windies player",
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    "excerpt": "An ex-West Indies player has labelled Dwayne Bravo\u2019s axing as West Indies one-day captain",
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    "editor1": "<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Port of Spain, Dec 23 (IANS\/CMC) An ex-West Indies player has labelled Dwayne Bravo&rsquo;s axing as West Indies one-day captain as &quot;suspicious&quot; and believes the all-rounder has paid the price for his role in the controversial abandoned tour of India last October.<\/span><\/span><br \/>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cricketnmore.com\/cricket-news\/yuvraj-pietersen-released-by-their-ipl-teams--5277\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration: none; -webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out; background: transparent;\">Yuvraj, Pietersen released by their IPL teams<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Bravo, who was replaced as skipper by 23-year-old Jason Holder, was also dropped from the 15-man squad to the tour South Africa next month, along with the experienced duo Kieron Pollard and former captain Darren Sammy, reports CMC.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Bryan Davis, who played four Tests against Australia in 1965, said the group that toured India was West Indies&rsquo; best squad and opined that the raft of changes that had taken place were as a result of the players strike.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">&quot;I believe it has to do with the abandonment of the tour of India,&quot; Davis told Monday.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">&quot;Dwayne Bravo has suffered the consequences. I am only judging by what the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) said that there would be no discrimination. They could cover it up and talk about transition, but the timing was very bad.&quot;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">He continued: &quot;I was surprised from the point of view the Board said there would not be discrimination against those who went to India, so I was expecting a similar team to the one that went to India.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">&quot;If that was the best team at the time, I don&rsquo;t see anything that happened between then and now to create any changes.&quot;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">In announcing the squad Saturday, the WICB said the recommendation for the change in captaincy had come from the Clive Lloyd-led selection panel and approved by the board of directors.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Lloyd said in a statement that now was the best time to make a transition to youthful leadership.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Significantly, the move comes on the cusp of the 2015 World Cup campaign set to begin in Australia and New Zealand in February.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">&quot;I see nothing wrong with Jason Holder being captain but the question is the timing. If you are going to change to a younger captain why not do it before the India tour?&quot; Davis queried.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">&quot;Why now when you just have the South African series and straight into the World Cup? The young captain does not have time to get experience on the field of play and bond with his team. The best time to have done this would have been after the World Cup, I would have thought.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">&quot;If you were thinking about a transition to youth, that should have happened after the World Cup.&quot;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Bravo was the spokesman for the squad in India as they battled the WICB and the players union, West Indies Players&#39; Association (WIPA), over the contentious new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">On his return to the Caribbean, the 31-year-old all-rounder was part of emergency meetings involving the WICB and the WIPA officials, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves, which were aimed at resolving the impasse.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Davis said it was hard not to find a connection between the squad changes and the occurrences in India.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">&quot;I find the timing is suspect, because of what happened in India. It seems a little suspicious,&quot; he said.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n",
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