Living in the era of West Indies cricket's decline has been a frustrating experience for me.

The sense of schadenfreude is always poignant when stories are related by people who saw the great Caribbean players in action from 1960 to 1995. Their pleasure at witnessing those legends is the misfortune of all contemporary West Indies fans. Watching Sir Garfield Sobers' all-round brilliance, Vivian Richards intimidating fast bowlers, Malcolm Marshall outfox batsmen, and Sir Frank Worrell, the first black West Indies captain and cricket statesman, leading the regional side would have completed my life.

Fast-forward to West Indies' World T20 triumph, which signified the first signs of real progress the team and fans have been searching for after 17 years of insipid performance

read the full article at ESPNcricinfo

In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

Talent without brains, commitment and discipline equals what?

In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

The author of this article obviously does not like Richie and Ambi because the coaches always get the blame when talent fails to perform.

you have the talent, so you have 10% of what it takes

what really is "talent"?

phew
and what is "challenge"?

In reply to doosra
Exactly. What is "talent" and challenge"

No obvious weak points eh.

I wish WI cricket had futures. Id sell him all.

In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com


That has never been in doubt ; the fact however is that the talents our Players possess has never been properly harnessed ; enhanced & honed .

I have been stating this from the time I joined this Forum ; and sadly little has been done by those in the governance of Cricket in the Region .

My perspective is that all those in the Region have failed to take those i the governance of Cricket in the Region regarding this issue .

They instead , like many in the Region prefer to lambaste the Players , for their performances , while paying scant
attention to why our Players are performing inconsistently & poorly .

Perhaps they are afraid of offending all those in the governance of Cricket in the
Region . When the Windward Islands change a 4 days match into a 2 days match , with the expectation of having 4 innings in 2 days , that is outrageous , and should be
offensive to ALL those in the Region who claim to be Sports Journalists .

Until those in the governance of Cricket in the Region ; & the pseudo Sports Journalists in the Region realize that :

PROPER PREPARATION PREVENTS

PISS POOR PERFORMANCES


Our Players performances are going to be very inconsistent . This aint Rocket Science , this is just simple commonsense ; a commodity that seems to be in short supply in the Region .

I thought this was a good article, attempting to pull out some positives from a dire situation....

In reply to Cleg

Seeing that my thread on the same topic has been ignored, I'll repost my opinion here.

In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

Everybody can acquire the ingredients to make a good roti. But you know, having the ingredients is only one part right ? Almost all the skill and art of it is in the preparation and actual making of it. Hope you get my point.

In reply to Outswinger

I agree with your assessment . Proper preparation is essential in having a good outcome . The problem however is that many in the governance of Cricket in the Region have yet to grasp this fact .

In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

What kind of utter nonsense title is dis nuh? Since when did the West Indies ever NOT have the talent to challenge the top teams?


Was there ever any doubt that the West Indies had the talent to challenge the top teams?

In reply to BatQuake