Cricket West Indies Men’s Chief selector Desmond Haynes has said he backs opener John Campbell and he forged a strong partnership with captain Kraigg Brathwaite against Bangladesh Test series, which he believes has helped ease some of West Indies’ worries at the top of the order test team. he spoke about opener John Campbell at a press conference on Wednesday.
“You can see that he is very determined. He wants to do well. The way he and Kraigg bat together, they tend to bounce off of each other.”
he Batted well with Capitan Brathwaite in the concluded Bangladesh Test series againts Bangladesh. Together they formed 44, 01, 100, and 13 good partnership and Haynes said he will give the team a good start that it hasn’t had in years.
“We’ve given John a run, and we’re hoping he will continue. He looks the part to me. One or two against Bangladesh were a little bit unfortunate… but apart from that, he has given us some good starts, something we weren’t getting years ago.”
Campbell has played 20 Test matches where he has not scored a single century and He has scored 03 fifties with 888 runs.
“We were either 15 for three or five for three, and so far, we’re getting some starts, and I think that John is actually trying to get a score. He’s doing well. He’s working on his game and I think he’s performing fairly well.”
One position that caught the eye in the Bangladesh series was the number three position, where Reefer was responsible for playing and where he struggled to score runs there, Haynes explained.
“I believe Reifer has got the ability to bat in any position in the West Indies team, but then we have Shamarh Brooks there who we’ve tried as well.”
He further explained,
“We don’t really write off anybody. The selectors, we’ve always felt that what we want to create in the West Indies team is that we want to have a lot of people fighting for one position, and I think when you look at it, we’ve got people fighting for the number three position.”
He said that not only the number three position but also a good competition should be built up to 05,
“And not only the number three position, but in our batting from one to five. We want guys that when they’re playing for West Indies, they’re looking over their shoulders and seeing there are one or two other guys that if they don’t do well, are going to fit into their position.” he concluded.