Not want­i­ng to be a spoil­sport or rain on the pa­rade of eu­pho­ria, suc­cess, and ela­tion cur­rent­ly em­brac­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go crick­et, there is one thing that has trou­bled me for a while, and this is as good a time as any to raise it.

​Why has Joshua Da Sil­va fall­en so far out of favour with Crick­et West In­dies (CWI)? He has gone from be­ing con­sid­ered a po­ten­tial West In­dies cap­tain to a non-fac­tor where the CWI se­lec­tion pan­el is con­cerned.

​Is it that Da Sil­va spoke out of turn to the me­dia (April 28, 2025 edi­tion of the Trinidad News­day)? Or is he pay­ing for past sins when skin colour de­ter­mined who cap­tained the West In­dies crick­et team? We moved past that era with Sir Frank Wor­rell. How­ev­er, is it that there are those who feel deep down that Da Sil­va, for non-crick­et rea­sons, should nev­er cap­tain the re­gion­al side?