If it were possible for the eminent Dr Richard Allsopp to update his seminal Dictionary of Caribbean English Usage from beyond the grave, one could not be surprised if one turned to Page 216 and saw inscribed as an explanation to the word “embarrassing” – the current West Indies cricket team.
2017 for the West Indies might have started with great expectations. But this was no feel-good Dickensian prose. Shai Hope and Roston Chase might have momentarily conjured up images of Pip, but as December closed West Indies cricket was still deeply immersed in the reality of hard times. It became almost painful to listen to captain Jason Holder search for positives in defeat after defeat and repeat the same rhetoric that is synonymous with sporting failure.
The West Indies started their international campaign with a 0-3 One-Day International series loss to England in March in the Caribbean. They followed this up with losses to Pakistan in Tests (1-2), ODIs (1-2) and T20Is (1-3) between March and May in the Caribbean. They managed to defeat improving minnows Afghanistan 3-0 in a T20I series in June but the gap between the two sides was more accurately assessed when they drew the ODI series 1-1. In June the team – and the rest of the Caribbean – suffered the ignominy of participating in the Champions Trophy in England in front of their televisions after failing to qualify. By year-end, a similar cloud hung over the team’s participation in the 2019 ICC World Cup in England.
India visited the Caribbean for an ODI series in June and found, as other visitors have, that home advantage for the West Indies team had long become an aberration. The Indians duly won 3-1 with West Indies having the scant consolation of victory in a one-off T20I.
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In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com
if one turned to Page 216 and saw inscribed as an explanation to the word embarrassing the current West Indies cricket team.
Another jerk tries to project an understanding of what ails WI cricket but just like all the other jackasses, he blames the "current West Indies cricket team" and the NOT WICBC.
The October 1-0 triumph over Zimbabwe on the African continent will go into the history books as a series victory but the hosts two-day defeat in a four-day Test against South Africa this week, put that Zimbabwean stopover in the context of secondary school fourth-formers combating against primary school fourth-formers.
The 1-0 series win was nothing to gloat about or to relate hence to ones grandchildren around the fireplace.
Ouch
WEST INDIES TAKE A REST
Where Are Your Heroes West Indies
In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com
The arc of the Windies Corner is long, but, however, bends to pain, heartache, exasperation and finally surrender to hopelessness.
The Dream is dead. No coming back.
with the possibility of missing out on a wc appearance looming expect more ...
In reply to Emir
Don't you think it is time to stop blaming, blaming gets us nowhere, we all know the issues with the board, it is time to stop using it as an excuse, our players are not good enough
Sorry, Emir. I cannot agree with you. The board may bear some responsibility but the players ultimately have the responsibility to make good on the field and they simply have not. Time and time again. We now have to attribute blame fairly to the lack of talent of our current players and hope that with some experience they may improve in the future. Our captain has to do the honourable thing now and fall on his sword. He has made no difference to the team over the past few years.
In reply to VoopsandOut
a player goes out, plays a bad shot, bowls a bad ball....its the board fault, no one wants to affix responsibility where it goes, just keep looking for someone else to blame, the players need to go work on their game and improve, we can only blame the board for poor administration, not poor on field performances, i keep telling everyone that is the players, and their performances and/or lack thereof is why we are losing right now