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Cricket analyst Dr. Joseph 'Reds' Perreira says there is still hope for Joshua Da Silva to return to the West Indies Test side.

Da Silva was on the bench during the recent Test series in Pakistan, which saw both teams warning a 1-1 result.

According to Dr. Perreira, it's necessary for the wicketkeeper/batsman to shine in the ongoing Regional Four-Day tournament.
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00:00It's time to dive deeper as one cricket analyst is saying that there's still hope for Joshua
00:04De Silva to return to the West Indies test side.
00:07De Silva was on the bench during the recent test series in Pakistan which saw both teams
00:11playing to a 1-0 result.
00:13According to Joseph Reds Pereira, it's necessary for the wicketkeeper to shine in the ongoing
00:18Regional 40 tournament.
00:21He must have an outstanding season for Trinidad and Tobago, both with the gloves and with
00:26the bat.
00:27If he can have an outstanding season, he's setting up the platform to challenge.
00:33I think he needs to maybe reach out to Ramdin and Derek Murray for any discussions and advice
00:43that they might have.
00:45They've been watching him.
00:46There's the videos that he can turn to.
00:49And of course, I did also talk to a former West Indies wicketkeeper and he felt that
00:55Joshua De Silva should cut maybe about 10 or 15 pounds.
00:59It would help his footwork.
01:02He needs to improve the takes down the leg side.
01:06But he's got the youth on his side and these things are easy to overcome.
01:13Meanwhile, Dr. Pereira is strongly against the potential two-tier system for Test Cricket,
01:19saying he isn't for it.
01:21Well, ICC Chairman Jay Shah is considering such a format with the likes of Bangladesh
01:25and the West Indies being demoted to the lower tier with Afghanistan, Ireland and Zimbabwe.
01:31Dr. Pereira says if such a thing happens, the top-tier teams should still be able to
01:36play those in the lower tier.
01:39It's not in the best interest of Test Cricket, but the top tier is a club that want to gain
01:48more money than they are getting now, irrespective of how the game will develop in the second tier.
01:55If we do have to have a two-tier passed by the ICC, we must have a promotion-relegation system.
02:04We must have a situation where the top tier still must play the bottom tier in Test Series
02:11on an organized basis.
02:13We want to see greater financial benefits towards the bottom tier and that is the only
02:23way that it could in fact operate to benefit Test Cricket getting better and of course
02:31the bottom tier also getting better.
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