Five things Sabina taught us
Wed, Apr 26, '17
For a change, let’s talk cricket. Not the politics of cricket mind you. The distinction needs to be made because so much of what we read and speak about these days is taking place away from the pitch. In the past week for instance, there was Darren Bravo’s decision to get legal with the West Indies Cricket Board in his now five-month long standoff with its president, Dave Cameron. And on the weekend, news leaked that Brian Lara wants one of the stands at the new Cricket Academy in Tarouba named after Sachin Tendulkar. Go back a little further, and there was Prime Minister Keith Rowley’s hijacking claim against what he called a clique within the WICB/Cricket West Indies and his assertion that, “unless there are drastic changes to the current arrangements, West Indies cricket will never get back to where we expect it to be.” I’ll sum up all of that by saying this: Blah, blah, blah!If it could take more than five months to settle matters over a tweet, then one has to wonder if the business of Bravo’s playing cricket for West Indies is really a priority for either the player or the WICB president. As for the Tendulkar Stand brouhaha, why people place such value on naming things after others is beyond me.
