In reply to Jumpstart
Is this the same Ridley who said this of Lara?
"A captain has to be able to motivate his team," added Jacobs. "He can't afford to be selfish. With this captain, it is not for the love of the game any more, it's for him."
Jacobs slams selfish Lara
hmmm
In reply to CricSham
Yea then he was influenced by the politics of the wicked islands- now he is free. Stop the Lara hate. Time gone for that, you wicked OECS.... 
In reply to Barry
Barry don't get your straps in a bind. Just pointed out that Ridley said quite the opposite also.
Seems it hit a painfully sore spot 
In reply to Barry
I want to hear about Andy Robbers et al 
In reply to CricSham
ridley cutting it both ways
In reply to CricSham
Keep on your thongs sister, I am expressing myself. This is not Antigua and I am not that captain’s wife- you can’t hit me to shut me up while you sow wild oats like rain
In reply to Barry
Baron, restrain yourself otherwise the old you will come out. you have been v good thus far
In reply to Barry
Barry, such a childish display of immaturity is unbecoming.
Hitting the booze a bit early aren't we?
In reply to CricSham
In reply to CricSham
I would like to read Your opinion on
Lara with regard to this Topic .
In reply to CricSham
You don’t use thongs?
In reply to sudden
Who is Baron?
In reply to POINT
He hides behind words and his Guyanese nationality 
In reply to CricSham
Here is Tony Cozier on BCL
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Ambrose: ‘Lara craved captaincy too much’
In reply to openning
Do all Bajans except Mia lie? Cozier knew quite well that it was the Leeward island players that abused Kanhai - calling him a drunk etc. Lara was nearby and turned away- yet Cozier lies. Cozier lied on Phil Simmons until he was dropped. I regret that Lara was not born in Barbados- the land of ....
In reply to openning
This not the same dude who started the boycott for anderson cummings? I read this article before. Cozier said lara could bat like a dream but wss bad for WI cricket. I dont see how the two are corelated. Lara's runs did not go to a team called the Brian Lara XI. It went to a west indies total. Brian Charles Lara was the only thing seperating the WI from total irrelevance. Cozier always has been a man with a dot island agenda. Lara spent an inordinately long time as twelveth man-almost two years and it was not because carlisle best and keith atherton had earned the right to keep their places. Cozier was busy in the media saying lara had to wait his turn.
When lara was with the team in england in 1991, some fool said it was only because Joey Carew was a selector- i suspect it was viv or hooper who for a decade tried to compete wuth lara and thus never got his average above 40.I dont think it was richie. Richardson has been a WICB yes man but i never got tye impression he was provocative or agressive. I really suspect it was viv because he had been hostile ever since lara had been first selected for the team in 1989. Although lara seems to idolize him. Feelings aint resiprocated. Two years ago, viv was at a Book festival in India and told a packed audience that lara put his kit in viv's spot because he was from a smaller island. And of course yhe indian crowd lapped it up because they're always looking for some lara controversy to add to the sachin versus lara argument no matter how absurd and farfetched it sounded. I mean common, lara putting his kit bag in the same spot as the then undisputed king of west indian cricket simply because he's from antigua, a smaller island than TT. He just vex lara dont spit green verbs in a fresh water yankee accent. The last foolish thing he said was that lara was partially responsinle for a decline which started to happen when viv was cappo.
I agree that Lara wasn't perfect. He could be moody. He did vitually campaign for the captaincy. But nobody's perfect, and especially geniuses as rare as lara have traits that will not gel with the average cricketer. But lara cannot be blamed for our openners averaging 30s and 40s(gayle included) when their counterparts were averaging in the 50s or close too. He cant be faulted with the fact that our quicks broke down often and had to be replaced by journeymen like reon king(reon de raptor, a most unmannerly man).
I also listened to the interview.....they really did sir Curtly a massive disservice. That was one brief part of it. And he was right. Lara did want the captaincy and virtually campaigned for it and the realized its the hardest job in the caribbean.....and he also mentioned that lara always took input from him and courtney.
A song for Brian and the pain...
In reply to Barry
I remember reading an article where Colin Croft called lara the world's greatest politician. The same dude who went to south africa to accept blood money froma country that despised(constitutionally) black and brown people and where he was kicked off a train because they didn't understand the honorary white thing calling Lara the world's greatest politician
