“[…] What they (Cricket West Indies) have given Alzarri Joseph is a couple days of rest [and] a slap on the wrist… This was coming for a long while… He has obvious problems with his anger and aggression.
“The other point I would like to make is that he has been feeling the building pressure, because he is not king of the rock anymore…”
The following is a Letter to the Editor by veteran cricket commentator Joseph “Reds” Perreira on the Cricket West Indies’ two match suspension of fast bowler Alzarri Joseph for indiscipline:
I think this has been badly handled by the West Indies board (the Cricket West Indies). I think [to] most people who saw it—and it was seen by the world—it was just a shocking display of indiscipline, and disrespect for your captain and your fellow players, disrespect to the crowd watching, and disrespect to the game.
One would have thought that the West Indies board would have taken the opportunity to do the appropriate to help this young man.
My own feeling, before I saw the two-match ban—which was short of a good length—was that he should face a suspension for five matches. He would not have played against England at all.
Let him go away from the team, go away from the game, go back to Antigua, see his family, get the love from his wife and children and his friends, and support in general.
What they have given him is two days or a couple days of rest.
The other missing part of the West Indies board’s action is that, other than suspending him for the five games, they could have arranged for some special help with the [relevant] qualified people about temper management.
Getting that help would have taken him, and enabled him to face the tiger and the internal devils. He might have been able to then come back and be available for the Bangladesh tour.
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The West Indies board has virtually given him a slap on the wrist. I mean, the initial behaviour was enough: the total show of vexation, hands flaring, with a couple of the players trying to talk to him, and him ignoring them.
There was the case of [Jayden] Seales going up to him, taking the towel; he virtually boxed the hand away.
But the straw that broke the camel’s back was when he walked off without informing the captain, without telling the umpire—and because he didn’t tell the umpire, there could not be a sub.
How could the West Indies board have gotten this all wrong? It reflects a very weak board. I think the world was watching to see what they would have done.
If you check the social media, I think 80 or 90 percent felt that a more severe suspension might have been helpful. If you checked the international wires, you would have seen that it was a bad mark against West Indies cricket. But they have copped out.
It is a tap on the wrist, and a missed opportunity. This was coming for a long while.
You can see his exaggerated reaction to a possible dropped catch or misfield off his bowling, which was always worse than his teammates who would not react as badly. He has obvious problems with his anger and aggression.
The other point I would like to make is that he has been feeling the building pressure, because he is not king of the rock anymore. His last couple of series, maybe over the last two years, he has been very expensive.
And he is feeling the pressure of Seales; he is feeling the pressure of Shamar Joseph; he’s feeling the pressure of Matthew Forde, and one or two others lingering in the wings.
Others are now stepping up, and he might not be an automatic pick for whatever level—whether T20, 50 overs, Test match or whatever.
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Like I said, I think the West Indies board got it very wrong, and it would be interesting to find out who made that decision. Is there a disciplining committee functioning? Did the directors make the decision?
If you look at the statement of coach Daren Sammy, in relation to the suspension, I think even he might be a little disappointed.
Here was a lost opportunity to really address Alzarri Joseph’s ultra-aggression.
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