West Indies coach John Dyson is clearly unhappy with the fact that the captain of the West Indies team, Chris Gayle, has joined the national squad late on its tour of England. Gayle joined the Windies squad yesterday, two days before the first Test commences – not exactly model captain behaviour. Two other players, Dwayne Bravo and Fidel Edwards have also joined the squad late, due to IPL commitments.

Although diplomatic as ever, Dyson made it clear that he was not too happy with this state of affairs. Speaking to Cricinfo, he said, “We all knew the IPL was on and we knew the players would be arriving when they have. Ideally you would have your full squad here, but you have to work with how it is. Medical guys say you need time to recover from flights, coaches say you need practice and then you get players saying they can handle not doing that. I suppose time will tell.”

A classic case of players putting money ahead of country?