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MS Dhoni....
...meanwhile in the WI no one would give a shyte
In reply to JahJah
Lol. Population does have a lot to do with it, but it seems West Indian people have lost that genuine love for cricket that they once had. Or it simply wasn't inherited by the next generation.
In reply to Devin
do you think that Windians idolize stars the way the Indian public does?
In reply to jcveletta
Yes! Sobers, Kanhai.The whole world actually idolized them.
Maybe the Trinis with Lara. I wasn't around to idolize.
With this primitive WI generation, do you think anybody gives a shit about anyone or thing except their selfish interests?
Is there anybody to give a shit about?
Even when there is, like Gayle, the pseudo macho men feel they will have bigger penises if they cut down the worthy performers.
Wasn't there a Caribbean song about knowing/recognizing your heroes?
Soccer fans do it.
Other countries do it.
Shit hole peeps in shit hole places don't give a shit!
In reply to Devin
More exciting sports deh bout.
In reply to goofballs
Ok Donald, calm down.
In reply to goofballs
But to be fair to West Indians, outside of the Universe Boss, do we really have any cricketer to idolize?
Name 1.
In reply to bobby
It was in part A of the question.
Even when there is, like Gayle, the pseudo macho men feel they will have bigger penises if they cut down the worthy performers.
After Lawrence Rowe 51 against New Zealand in Barbados, then even more after the England 1974 series,small crowds would show to watch the Jamaican cricket team practice at Kensington Oval.
In reply to Devin
Brings to mind an interesting article I read years ago Link Text
I think a big factor might be that we West Indians generally know our cricketers more intimately. We grew up in the house next door to them, went to school with them, drink in the rum shop with them. They are not distant gods that we worship from afar.
But generally West Indians are not a star-struck people. Many a North American movie star has been to a Caribbean country and wondered why the locals didn't treat them like the sun reveolved around them
In reply to jcveletta, In reply to cedaw
West Indians have always been laid back, cool, and relaxed by nature.
India is a star struck society. No one is more loved than a Bollywood movie star or an international cricketer in India. Look at the way they treat Gayle and ABD over there, and they aren't even Indian.
My father and I ran in to Sir Garfield Sobers one night when we picked up food at a Chinese restaurant. It was just so casual and relaxed. If you didn't know who he was, you wouldn't have even given him a second look.
These guys in India will probably never be able to go out and pick up food from a restaurant or do groceries without being bombarded. Virat conducted an interview with Stuart Binny's wife for Tissot some time last year. It was in a mall, if I'm not mistaken. You should've seen the amount of people that were lined up outside. Enough to fill a cricket ground.
The population and the disparity between rich and poor has a lot to do with it. You live in a country with over a billion people, the chances of meeting Virat Kohli, Sachin, Amitabh Bachchan, or a Shah Rukh Khan are slim to none.
As Cedaw pointed out, in the Caribbean you can bump into West Indian cricketers anywhere. Rum shop, on the road, the beach, restaurant, etc etc.
Hell, an Indian cricket fan's best chance of meeting an Indian cricketer would probably be to travel to the Caribbean during an Indian tour of the West Indies.
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