"We as selectors saw commitment, we saw a real change in our approach to one-day cricket, and we thought it was only fair to stick with these guys."

Haynes, however, made it clear that "no player was ruled out of selection". "I must say, though, that I just want the public to know that nobody has been ruled out of selection for West Indies. We do not have the depth of players to rule out anybody for selection," he said.

"The last time we contacted Evin, he said that he was rather busy, he was doing some work at home, and he said that he would not be available till after the CPL. I hope I am right there and not misquoting him," Haynes said. "As I said before, we really cannot afford to sideline anyone. We are interested in selecting the best team for West Indies and to make sure that we appreciate where we are standing in world cricket and we want to improve that and we want pick the best players, who are committed, who we feel can play the roles for us in order to get us from the bottom of the pack."

King, Athanaze, Da Silva being groomed as future leaders

"What we are trying to do is to encourage to get a group of players who we can have that can play leadership roles, and we have got our eye on people like Brandon King, Alick Athanaze, who has captained the Winward Islands this year and we were very impressed with him leadership. Also it did not affect his batting, which we thought was very important," Haynes said. "We had to be consistent as well. Going forward, what we plan to do is to make some recommendations to Cricket West Indies where they will look at a list of players that we can start moving for leadership.

"I think Joshua would be one of them, and then we have Shai Hope who is captain in the 50-over and there would be plenty more that we would be looking at in the future."