5 CPL players who should be playing Test cricket for West Indies

Alzarri Joseph

Not everyone gets the luxury of playing for their country, even if it is only a rank or two below senior cricket. Fewer still can proudly proclaim that they have won a World Cup and earned the adulation of not just your peers but also the people that you looked up to, growing up.

But Alzarri Joseph did all of this as a teenager by winning the U-19 World Cup for West Indies and earning praise from Andy Roberts, Ian Bishop and Curtly Ambrose. Yet if there is one reason more than all of this that warrants his place in the West Indian Test side, it is his pace.

After all, Joseph did bowl at 150 kmph at the U-19 World Cup and since the current side is short of that and went into the last Test with just one fast bowler, they could certainly do with someone who induces fear in the minds of the batsman with sheer pace.