Without a doubt, the best asset a captain can have is a good team. New West Indies Twenty20 International (T20I) captain Carlos Brathwaite certainly has that. He inherited it from previous two-time ICC World Twenty20 winning captain Darren Sammy, who despite his recent uncertain form, led a scarily fearsome side. In all departments of the game, the Caribbean team is staffed by some of the best and most heavily sought after players in cricket's briefest format.

Take Chris Gayle, he is T20 cricket's most powerful drawing card. His reputation is not for nothing either because he wields, quite possibly, the most dominant blade in the game. Very few are the players who possess anything like his power and ability to strike a cricket ball. Nobody has scored as many runs in the T20 game. He has 18 hundreds in the format; next comes Brendon McCullum with seven. Gayle has also struck more fours and a lot more sixes than any other player.

And there is Andre Russell. Currently one of the game's hottest properties, he has rapidly racked up an unbelievable winning streak. It can be no coincidence that the Jamaican won titles with virtually all of the numerous T20 teams he has represented in the recent past, notching up a winning streak that is unlikely to be equaled.

Other well-known and well-respected players on the side are Dwayne Bravo, the magical Sunil Narine, T20I's top-ranked bowler Samuel Badree, Marlon Samuels, player of two World T20 finals match-winning innings, and the mighty Kieron Pollard.

A few days ago, West Indies coach Phil Simmons spoke on how pleased he was to have the senior players back for the two games against India in Florida. "It's good to have all the senior guys back and they make things easy for me because it's a case of them doing all the work and they know this format inside out. So it gives me a chance to just enjoy them freeing themselves out there," he had said.

This team, then, ought to be relatively straightforward to lead. Get the team spirit going (much easier to do when you're winning as opposed to when you're losing), become a competent tactician, make sure to develop your own game so you can maintain your teammates respect, and all should be well. If this team regularly fulfills its potential then Brathwaite, an impressive and an intelligent young man, should have a long time at the helm.

Brathwaite began his tenure as captain in the just concluded series against India at the Central Broward Regional Stadium in Lauderhill, Florida. West Indies won 1-0, courtesy a