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CaribbeanCricket.com 2015-07-05 05:51:05 

IT is a puzzle that has gone unsolved for a couple of decades. Attempts to crack it involve mainly, but not only, the quality of pitches.
At their meeting in Barbados last weekend, West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) directors charged the cricket committee to have another go at coming up with suggestions of how “to prioritise the development of fast bowlers in the region and for the West Indies team, recognising that the majority of the overs in regional tournaments are bowled by spinners and is impacting negatively on the production of fast bowlers for the West Indies team”.
As it considers its fresh mandate, the committee, on which Courtney Walsh and Joel Garner are the only members from the glorious past of fast bowling dominance, is presumably familiar with what prompted the directors' renewed concern.

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deanjones 2015-07-05 07:56:58 

In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

Could it be also guys with the physical attributes don't play the game any longer? I think that will change though with the money in 20/20 now.

 
BeatDball 2015-07-06 17:51:39 

In reply to deanjones I concur.

 
michaelmax 2015-07-07 18:02:45 

In reply to deanjones

Really? How tall is Gabriel? Michael Cummins of Barbados. Type in Chris Powell talented lanky fast bowler into youtube. All of those have the physical attributes that we love to talk about.