Windies First XI

Yep England A would probably thrash ours because the bowling is so carp but it was not long ago that our A team gave the England senior team a right shellacking in a tour game. Admittedly that had a lot to do with Simmons and Barath who went on to play for the senior team not long afterwards. In our defence Reifer would struggle to make a Windies D team, he was just the leader of the scabs and became the first 37 year old in the history of international cricket to receive a 'developmental contract'.

This would be my West Indies A team for March 2009 tours to destination unknown:

Kieron Powell
Kraigg Braithwaite
Lendl Simmons
Darren Bravo
Andre Creary
Kieron Pollard
Devon Thomas (wk)
Darren Sammy (c)
Nikitta Miller
Kevin McLean
Nelon Pascal

Reserves:

Andre Fletcher
Brandon Bess
Jason Dawes
Davendra Bishoo

It's a mixture of teenage batting prodigies like Braithwaite or Creary, proven First Class performers like Miller, McLean and Pascal and raw but extremely talented young players like Bess (extreme pace, no direction) and Bishoo. The pace bowling is poor and the batting is extremely inexperienced but ridiculously talented.

Was going to post something similar to this. If they can get Edwards, Roach and Taylor all fit and firing the West Indies could really start to close the gap.

Chanderpaul is a quality bat and Gayle is a ledge, plus with Nash adding some much needed grit they're not too far off being a good team.

Now with 3 fast bowlers if they can strive to get some hard and bouncy wickets for home Tests, even if they can't get the 1980s strips something like the ones they prepared for England in 2004 (except the road at Antigua).