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In reply to brians_da_best

You have to be the one to lead.
You have a similar visit to Sir Frank.

Will be interesting to hear comments on this. Many lara fans have justified Pollard, Gayle and bravos decisions to to to IPL at the expense of representing the west indies

In reply to brians_da_best

Best way to move forward....give youngsters multi-year contract....Give Athanaze, Joseph and other debutants 3 years contract.... with clause of playing IPL , CPL and one more league....this way , both side winners....players can earn & learn.... West Indies cricket also reap benefits... England has already done so...CWI should follow....

In reply to Onionman0

I agree. Let them okay CPL and one more league of their choice, with West Indies interests being paramount

In reply to brians_da_best

Did you try to hold on to them? It’s like a man who beats his wife everytime he doesn’t make a century and then when a reporter picks it up…. You have to love and hold onto your wife not the reporter…

In reply to Barry

I’ll ignore your man wife analogy since you constantly bring up domestic violence in your analogies and I find that inappropriate

If CWI holding on to players means paying them what they get in leagues, that’s next to impossible, at least in the present moment.

Read what Lara said, there needs to be a sense of pride associated with representing the West Indies

In reply to brians_da_best

according to vix and imusic

Bri didn't get the memo

In reply to brians_da_best

The way I recall it, Lara retired from West Indies cricket to be part of that short-lived T20 Cricket League in India.

Sorry, I can't remember the name of the league, but it preceded the IPL.

In reply to doosra

You not the one telling Hety to go eat him food and forget about WI?

Allyuh have a convenient kinda “loualty”

IPL was the devil fuh Allyuh up until Guyanese players start to get
Contracts.

Now we getting daily updates from
Allyuh on SA t20 league.

Hypocritical to the max

In reply to Drapsey

ICL. I don’t think Brian retired to play it, rather retired because he wanted to retire / wasn’t being retained as captain for the England series in June 2007. And the ICL happened around the same time and they signed him on for a few million dollars

Whatever it was the ICL turned out to be a terrible decision for him, since it wñcost him IPL millions and IPL superstardom that Sachin and Warne managed. Like brian, They were all superstars and very rich, but the IPL embellished that for them. Brian missed out big time

In reply to brians_da_best

In reply to Onionman0

Multi year contracts mean nothing if players decide to opt out!

Lara's legacy is in test!

In reply to camos

You can’t discount his 10k ODI runs. He was the ICC number 1 odi batsman for 4 or 5 years in a row in the 90s. Then during the second half of his career. He dropped himself down the order in ODIs and started focussing more on tests

Back to the thread. We clearly can’t pay salaries to match IPL money, but can we build pride for playing for the West Indies, so players stick on with the national team and only play leagues when no international cricket is on?

In reply to brians_da_best

In reply to doosra

two headlines on misinfo today:

In reply to brians_da_best

Is that what Australia did...Aussies are well paid

In reply to brians_da_best

In reply to Drapsey

Lemme see...I am a young man with talent, someone paying me big bucks for this talent....hmmmm...what do I do?

In reply to ray

Appease the "purists"!!!

In reply to brians_da_best
Our children are taught in school by their teachers that migration is a better option.
They see it when the teachers resign in the middle of a term.

Allyuh are a set of jokers.
The majority of our best or their children have already migrated.
It’s over. Neo-liberalism has destroyed the entire planet and poor ass regions like ours have no chance.
Our eat a food posse are only concerned about feeding themselves and most of their children are overseas.
They will assist in selling us out further.

When all that is preached is prosperity we are as dead as ducks near a shooting range.

In reply to imusic

2 things before you throw another fit...

1. I was referring to yall calling dead on test cricket

2. I never had an issue with players making choices for themselves...i have repeated that over and over

my issue was players making all sorts of nonsensical excuses when they wanted to play t20 and wi cricket...allyuh never acknowledged that...players go and make your money...but don't come up with all sorts of excuses why you don't want wi cricket and behave bad when not selected...

In reply to doosra

In reply to SnoopDog

But they are and you can’t take that away from them?

In reply to Chrissy

In reply to brians_da_best

Stop blaming Gayle, Pollard and Bravo. They all gave up good IPL money to rep WI! Until Mr. Hilaire unwisely tried to w?tether them to WI cricket and WI cricket only (offering contracts where they had to stay home and play local club cricket) not one of them up to then missed a single WI match for which they were picked; none!! Yuh spreading falsehoods.

I understand that money is important, but man the love of money will F_up everything, every time… it’s a lot more fun to watch those YouTube black and white of WI cricket of yester-year when money was not the primary reason to play. Playing the game for the sheer joy, enjoyment and pride in the diaspora you represent. But I guess as the Pete Seeger 1959 song says “To Everything There Is a Season"-

In reply to birdseye

Dude you really believe past players would've chosen test cricket instead of the life-changing amounts earned in the T-20 leagues?

get real nah man.

In reply to VIX

I am not saying that at all, and I am not suggesting that today players should be monogamous – I am just giving my take on the mediocrity of current WI cricket….and then again, other countries’ teams are able to prosper well in the current cricket milieu. So the question becomes: if other teams can prosper, flourish in the new paradigm why aren’t WI players capable of same, I am postulating that the new found wealth alters focus, rather than talent depletion/dilution..

CWI is in the business of making money, they even incorporated in a tax free local, which is not a part of CWI, why should players not emulate that?

In reply to camos

They went to Packer. They played county. Did Hilaire ever paused once and think that trying to force big men to give up big bucks and play local club cricket instead was the near equivalent of Peter Short telling Sobers he can't go to Northants but stay in Bim and practice for next yrs. test series? Our ideas usually sound best to us and those who have sycophants. Did he ever really 'air it out' to HR and legal experts?

In reply to birdseye