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Marshall out-voted on team selection

Bermuda captain Charlie Marshall revealed last night that he had been out-voted over selection for yesterday's final Red Stripe Bowl match against the Windward Islands.

Marshall had wanted to give a chance to young off-spinner Stevie Outerbridge and Jamaican born paceman David Gibbs, neither of whom had made the final 11 for the previous two matches.

But coach Allan Douglas and manager Dennis Wainwright were determined to keep the same 11 who lost by eight wickets to Guyana the previous day, leaving Marshall fuming.

Marshall said: "I was trying to encourage the guys who hadn't played but all I kept hearing was that we had to play our best team.

"My feeling was, well it may be the best team but no one is performing. I was out-voted two-to-one and I am upset that they never gave me, as captain, the benefit of the doubt.'' Marshall continued: "If you are not going to play all the players chosen to represent Bermuda only bring 11 or 12, not 14. I was disgusted.'' Marshall said he thought the plan had been to play three spinners in at least one game.

"Before we arrived in Jamaica we were looking at playing all of the spinners in the third game.

"I thought they would play Stevie yesterday. If we had played him that would have made a difference to the game as the Windwards struggled to get the spinners away.

" As captain I feel sorry for Gibbsy and Stevie, I thought they deserved to play today.'' Marshall added: "The coach and manager's position was that we really thought we could win this game. I'd agree with that if the players had been performing but they hadn't.''