00:00welcome back to sports everybody thanks for sticking around well the secrets of history
00:15are coming to life tonight former westernies captain duane bravo has opened up on life after
00:21the memorable 2014 tour of india speaking on a youtube channel bravo indicated it was the lowest
00:27point of his career but it gave rise to some of his best known achievements who likes to rehash the
00:34past well former westernies captain duane bravo reflecting on the 2014 tour of india says it was
00:40a life-changing point in his career he believes a decision to not play came down to a stand for
00:45the younger players at that time he was getting paid 25 for 2200 u.s. to play a t20 game the
00:55original contract was 55 and it cut down to 22. now me in the position that i am i could afford to
01:02play for 2200 u.s. it's not really gonna affect me personally but i cannot sign off on that when it is
01:09not everybody in my position financially speaking on a youtube channel beard before wicket bravo says
01:15since then he had been left off of the team when he rolled the clock back now out of that 15 members
01:22who was there in india at that time everyone has played odi cricket for westernies apart from me
01:28after that wow yeah everyone has played so i moved from being the captain
01:34took the team when we used to win like 32 34 percent of our games then when i become captain we said
01:44we i reach up to 48 percent in like eight and a half months then lost the captaincy fine but then i lost
01:54my spot he indicated that the situation inspired him to create the song champion i get the brunt of the
02:00the the lakes and then we go back into the caribbean and again uh they call us all kind of names you know
02:07we disrespect west indies and that money oh the i didn't say anything i take my legs the world the
02:14team gets elected to go to the world cup in 2015 i was dropped and so you know my song champion
02:24that's how that song came about seriously because when i get dropped off of the team to go to the world
02:32cup in 2015 in australia it was the lowest time in my entire career i literally thought like my
02:39cricket career was done moving forward he believes that more effort should be made to listen to players
02:44before judging their decision to not play for the west indies sergio dufort tv6 sport
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