The decision by West Indies management to give Nicholas Pooran the One Day International (ODI) captaincy over vice-captain Shai Hope has not escaped the notice of former Barbados player Jamal Smith, who says there is a lack of clarity in the process.In the second ODI match against India played at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad which the regional side lost by 44 runs, Pooran was handed the captaincy in place of an injured Kieron Pollard. However, Smith who also represented Combined Campuses and Colleges, said Hope should have been the one to lead the Caribbean side given the fact he was named the official vice-captain.“I would say that there is lack of clarity in the process in itself because naturally, you assume that a vice-captain will follow suit if his captain is unavailable, case in point Nicholas Pooran in the just concluded English T-20 series was captain during the two games that Kieron Pollard was injured. So, you would expect the same thing to happen for Shai Hope in the One Day International series,” Smith explained. He added: “I was thinking about the West Indies preparing for the post-Pollard era, so against that backdrop, I still think they would need at least one more candidate that should be allowed to show his leadership prowess.
