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Give me this group over the geriatrics 7 days a week and twice on Sundays

In reply to Walco

Successful geriatrics?

In reply to Walco

In reply to Walco

A loss is a loss...

I am sick and tired of looking for positives in a loss.

I want the team to show fight and win.

In reply to Narper

AGREED!!!! We had a chance to pull it off too!! Those were two standard catches that were dropped.

In reply to Narper

they showed some fight
yes they lost but I can take this and expect them to do better and win next game.
Shouldn't be any excuses next game, them drop catch and that one over by Cotterrel cost us.

In reply to positiveg
Come on we should have scored fifteen or so more runs.
We fell down in three departments : batting, bowling and fielding.
That said, it was much closer than I expected and Yannic had a very good debut match.

In reply to nick2020

i was about to say that

In reply to nick2020
They were not geriatrics when they had the success to which you refer

In reply to positiveg
Don’t forget that King, Powell, Mayers and Holder just arrived in Australia yesterday after traveling for 35 hours.

In reply to Walco

If they was inhabitants of the coral island partially in the Atlantic, you'd have no problem. Allyuh sit through 5 years of holder's disastrous tenure and said nothing. In fact, a certain female pm was guarding against wholesale changes after Cameron lost. And the only person whose job were in danger were the coach and the captain

In reply to Narper
I want the same thing you want. But a fighting loss is better than a capitulation in my book. We have had too many capitulations lately. We should’ve won today though, but I doubt many of us expected the fight we saw today under difficult circumstances

In reply to Walco

Well that was a very long rest for them , so whats your point again ?

In reply to cricketfreak
My guess is that you have never taken three flights over a period of 35 hours. So I will give you a pass

In reply to cricketfreak

rest?

man i once did a thailand trip from Guyana and it took me a week to recover ...that week was a workshop week...left after, got home 3 days later and was sick for the next 3 weeks...body broke down

dem things call for nuff strength

In reply to cricketfreak

It takes a few days for one's body clock to adjust to a 12 - 14 hour time difference

In reply to Jumpstart
We took a team of washed up non-performing geriatrics to the last world cup and our performances showed. It matters not which islands they were from. But since we are talking about past WC victories, how many WC trophies would we have without the exploits of your favorite whipping boy RTN?

Absolutly, give me fight anyday and I honestly think the situation with Humpty might help that.
Remember what it did in Bangladesh with a somewhat similar scenario

In reply to mikelegend

Oz dropped 3 chances as well

In reply to Conorboy
Who is Humpty boss? Hetty?

In reply to Walco

How can you say they weren't performing? We had beaten Australia in a t20 series, lost a closely contested series vs SA and had beaten SL at home and abroad(in 2020). The world cup didn't go well, but that has more to do with the fact that the grounds were bigger and the wickets had more seam movement. India had the very same struggles as us and only beat Afghanistan, namibia and scotland. The 2012-2016 side would have struggled as well because the pitches were different to the ones they encountered in SL, Bangladesh and India.

In reply to Walco

Ey...everyboody does have a lucky day.....we may not have won, i admit. If the final went according to the script and we had 19 runs off 6 balls with holder at the wicket(pollard was injured). But we sure would have reached the final because his contribution during the entire series was virtually negligible.

Where would the entire team be without gayle's hundred in the first game, simmons' 86 n.o vs india, bravo's slower ball to get rid of AB on 0, Russell's 40+ off nothing in the semifinal vs india?

In reply to doosra

You obviously failed your yo-yo prior to that trip!

Oz can be less than their best, play sloppily, and still win

We need to play at or very near our best, in all departments, to win


That’s basically the difference between the 2 teams

In reply to Jumpstart

But you would be talking about the stars winning 1 WC instead of 2 WCs but for RTN's heroics

In reply to imusic

You are probably right. Well not probably you are right.

In reply to Walco

and RTN would have none....and he wouldn't be able to ride those 4 sixes and fool two ipl teams into thinking he actually had talent. Those guys were t20 legends before that tournament.

In reply to Jumpstart

your animus for Carlos has to do with the fact that he did not follow your script for sabotaging CWI and instead went back and told Conde of your plans.

In reply to sudden

He didn't need to follow "Dina's instructions". Just being cameron's little lapdogs and captaining second string teams to defeat after defeat made the team irrelevant enough. Imagine the only memory of the 2019 disaster is carlos innings and dancing with rihanna like a 7ft moron.......after a loss. This after excellent performances by oshane, dre rus, cottrell and co in the first two games vs pakistan and australia

In reply to Halliwell

it make me realise that i was not in good order

In reply to Jumpstart

Doh worry about dem bamsees. Their homies snatched defeat from the jaws of victory and they defending that stupidity.

i expect brooks to be playing ahead or reifer or charles

In reply to Overthrow
Kindly identify who is defending the dropped catches in today's match, and how such drops are being defended by said persons?

In reply to Walco

Bamsee you are the number one defender of really badly played cricket by your sellout homies. You have offered every excuse under the sun for their ridiculous performance in the field.

In reply to Overthrow

Badders go and take a rest with STD

In reply to Walco

Which one of your homies playing bad cricket?

In reply to Overthrow
Kindly point to the post(s) where I defended my homies.

In reply to nick2020
A better question would be which one of my homies isn't playing bad cricket?

In reply to Walco

Defending and refusing to criticize them for poor performances is the same thing home. As i said earlier. You guys sat down through holder and RTN's disastrous tenures and said nothing. When WI had australia 80-5 in the world cup after being terrorized from oshane, sheldon and russell, and then holder put on ashley nurse, who should not have even been part of the squad,and was subsequently pasted, yall said nothing. Instead, you criticized hetmeyer and russell for giving their wickets away in a 280+ chase, when they should really have been chasing max 150.

That being said....i aint criticizing mayers. Dude is a really good cricketer who adds energy and skill to the team

In reply to Chrissy

What else is there to fall dung from?

In reply to Jumpstart

Drop catches that were disastrous - lara pakistan 1997

piss poor captaincy record- Lara 2 iterations

criticism from tits- nil

In reply to sudden

its hard to be critical of a dude who constantly comes in and 3-2 or 0-2 and ends up making double hundreds son.

When last have we beaten Sri Lanka in a series? who was cappo?
when last have we not lost to AUS in a series? who was cappo?
when last have we beaten Aus in a test match? who was de captain?

In reply to Jumpstart

In reply to sudden

i would take that any day over innings defeats in three days

In reply to Jumpstart

you would have to. many of those devastating failures were made up of 3 day defeats

In reply to sudden

at least we won matches against top opposition.....matches that mattered, when the series was alive

In reply to Jumpstart

keep consoling yourself

In reply to sudden

indeed......yuh hadda revel in past glories until the WI rise again

In reply to Jumpstart

on that we can agree

In reply to sudden

Is hard though when all yuh have to comfort you is four deliveries in the last 25 years………not me of course

In reply to Overthrow
Bro, have you not learned from the CPL?
Can you face Amir or the Jamaica captain?

In reply to Jumpstart

Ok so you cannot find an example of me defending my homies, so you resort to accusing me of refusing to criticize my homies. Kindly point to an example where someone solicited my opinion about the performances of the bajans in the match today and I "refused" to offer an opinion. You will find no such instance, but look nonetheless.

By the way, my best friend called this morning after the game ended and we were talking about how the bajans literally dropped the match. Yuh satisfied now?

Jumpy real jumpy today and jumping all over the place.

In reply to Walco
You have to read Jumpy and Overthrow posts to know their take on players.
Rosman spoke of disrespect, Overthrow was the top culprit, Amir when after him during the series, making him confess on live TV, that will not be going downstairs to do the post match interview.
Jumpy should stay far away from representing any group of players, not only is he a divider, but he carry so much malice, to anyone that disagree with him.
He love yes people, players like Carlos, Jason and others whose opinions differed from WIPA during his Presidency, are seen by him as lackeys.
Please note, that are al Barbadians.

In reply to openning

carlos and jason are seen by everybody in the region as cameron lackeys.....barbados is seen as his constituency ; their support for him was fanatical and rabid

In reply to Jumpstart

Your thoughts on Pooran's recent performances?

In reply to nick2020

I have been the most critical of Pooran’s performances. He clearly can’t manage the workload of captaincy and his batting(although he got a good ball today). I’ve said it on more than one occasion.

In reply to Jumpstart
You should know, Barbados is small, but always had strength.
The T20 format has been slow for Barbadian cricketers, but have no fear, that will be remedy soon.

In reply to openning
Dais excellent. The fall of the WI is related to the fall in cricketing standards in Barbados. A position put out by Rudi Webster. Barbados hasn’t been good at any format for the last 25+ years which is why the last great the island most obsessed with cricket produced entered the scene 43 years ago.

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In reply to Jumpstart

4 day regional is not a format?

In reply to nick2020

When they were successful they weren't geriatrics.
They are no Tahir.

In reply to natty_forever

In the last ICC World T20 we won in 2016:

Gayle - 37
Samuels - 35
DJ Bravo - 33
Sammy - 33
Benn - 35
Badree - 35

Ramdin and Simmo were 31. That is a really old team.

In reply to Walco

I want a team that wins, we have been fighting long enough now. Losing by 1 run or 50 runs equates to the same thing, a LOSS! As Brandy sings, Almost doesn't count!

In reply to Windiesfan78
Boss we all would prefer wins. But give me close losses any day over demoralizing massacres. I will get up at 4 AM to watch a fighting team, but I will not lose sleep to watch my team get massacred ...

In reply to nick2020
That was a veteran team in 2016, but the team last year was old and nonperforming. Gayle and Bravo were 4 years older and Russell probably should not have played in the WC after suffering a serious hamstring injury weeks prior to the World Cup. They even tried to resurrect Castro, remember?

In reply to Walco

Old is an understatement. That was a side of Mumrahs.

In reply to Jumpstart
The fall of Barbados cricket started a long time ago, various reasons created the under-development of Barbados cricket.
A number of fans, think solely of clubs, being promoted into the highest devision, not seeing or thinking of the development of players.
The development of players is the reason or greats from Barbados was able to move from club and regional cricket into the international arena, they were the best in the Island, not so anymore.
These greats played and competed among the best players in the Island every weekend.
Spartan vs Empire was like watching a heavy boxing match, both these team, cannot produce a solid international cricketer, our top players are not competing against each other, every weekend.
The product is devalue, because of the Elite and first division, competing for the same players.
An elite or 1st division consisting of eight teams, with Cave Hill and a youth team part of the eight, will bring Barbados cricket development back.