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3,578 miles for the love of Windies

 
sgtdjones 2019-07-14 12:57:25 

3,578 miles for the love of Windies

There is a group of sup­port­ers in Eng­land who have dri­ven 1,789 miles to sup­port the West In­dies team at the 2019 ICC World Cup.

Al­though the team failed to im­press, win­ning on­ly two games and not ad­vanc­ing to the semi­fi­nals, the group of friends has vowed to con­tin­ue sup­port­ing the Caribbean side be­cause they say no dis­tance is too far to trav­el to show their sup­port.

The group, led by Do­mini­can Mar­tin Adrien, fea­tured some of the faces that the West In­dies play­ers saw reg­u­lar­ly in Eng­land dur­ing the tour­na­ment.

Mar­tin was joined by a group of tru­ly ded­i­cat­ed sup­port­ers, in­clud­ing the Guyanese Michael Bac­chus, Trinida­di­an Pe­ter Matthews, Do­mini­can David Blach­er, Ja­maicans Ray­mond Ash­er and Au­d­ley John­son, Bar­ba­di­an Car­lyle Stu­art and lo­cal boy Er­rol Pan­ton, as they drove around the coun­try to sup­port the team.

Adrien ex­plained: “When we saw the fix­tures we were very up­set at the fact that they were not putting our boys to play any games in Lon­don. With all due re­spect, they even give teams like Bangladesh three games in Lon­don and the West In­dies got none. Not even one at what we called our ‘home ground’ in the past, the Oval in Lon­don. (But) we said this would not af­fect our boys in terms of not get­ting out sup­port.”


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