Olympism

Vincentians like the rest of the peoples of the region are still displaying fits of depression and anger as they recall the putrid performances of the West Indies Cricket teams in the recent T20 World Cups played in the Caribbean. Read the rest of this entry »

The West Indies cricket team remains at the forefront of the consciousness of our people in the Caribbean if only because of what the game has come to mean for successive generations.

Despite the changing behaviour of our youth the reality still remains that like their fore parents they maintain an interest in the fortunes of the cricket team.

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Totally ashamed and visibly embarrassed the Caribbean political leaders sitting in CARICOM have felt in incumbent upon them to salvage something in West Indies Cricket. This has come in the wake of the failed attempt at mediation by Shridath Ramphal.

It does appear that the leadership of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) lacks any sense of shame at the state of the game in the region and what it has done to the image of the region at the global level. It also does not appear that the WICB’s leadership even cares what happens to the game.

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The recently concluded test series between Bangladesh and the West Indies ended at the Queen’s Park, St George’s, Grenada, on Monday last in the most humiliating defeat yet to be registered in the annals of the region’s cricketing history.
Whatever happens in West Indies Cricket in the future would not possibly compensate for the colossal embarrassment of suffering a 2 – 0 series defeat at the hands of lowly-placed Bangladesh.
There are not many Cricketers alive or dead who would ever have imagined that the West Indies would have faltered so badly that a loss to Bangladesh was ever on the cards.
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