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Mediocrity from top to bottom

In reply to Jumpstart

Looks like they're a 'casualty' of the League paradigm. The (forced) reliance on foreign resources not working in their favor.

In reply to Jumpstart

They have some decent talent coming through

Wickham has “something”
So too young Simmons, Layne, and Bishop

That said, given their rich history of producing GREAT cricketers……they are far off today by comparison. But the game has changed and all teams in the region have struggled to adapt.

Barbados is no exception.

In reply to Jumpstart

teams without an identity tend to not come together...

what is the identity of this team?

sknp

falcons

etc

they need to find someone from Bdos the team will rally around going forward

In reply to Jumpstart

They are in the playoffs which gives them a chance as good as any other of the top 4. This is lickit and the ball is round .....

Plenty unnu not from Bim

Saw Ramon Simmons last night and was scratching my head as to why he hasn't played more games. The stupidity of management not to push an up-and-coming player to the fore is grand.

The kid bowled with a good head on his shoulders.

In reply to SCC1

Yep, well spotted. I like him and he definitely looks like one for the future

In reply to Jumpstart

This is the Barbados Royals?

In reply to Kay

I would take a bet, bookmakers do not share your sentiments.

Ok. This is a poorman league. These teams should have been named after cities and not countries.

CWI should run an inter territory event. Especially with Olympics coming.

Ps then we can cuss the Bajans all we want or whichever team.

In reply to Jumpstart
Lol. You too much clown. You are clearly talking about this franchise team that has on average had 9 non-bajans to 2 bajans in it. If you are talking about Barbados cricket proper, then yes, it is not where it used to be , but at most age group levels we are still dominating the similarly declining region.

As to the franchise it speaks to deficient management in picking an unbalanced team that faired well enough on the true wickets in St.Kitts, St. Lucia and Barbados but struggled on sticky mats in Trinidad and Guyana. Picking Maharaj, after the loss of Wellalage, as the sole left arm or right arm wrist spinning bowler was the biggest blunder. He is a good test and 4 day bowler but an average T20 bowler. When one looks at how well Nedd performed they could easily have included Joshua Bishop , who usually outbowls Nedd and is a very useful big hitting lower order bat and good fielder, in the squad. Maharaj can bat a bit but not in T20 lower order format so the tail effectively begins at no.8.

As yes, the squad rotation was shockingly lacking. A budding talent like Nyeem Young talent hardly got a look in even though the one chance he got to bat he helped them win a close game. Promising players like Wickman and Simmons hardly got a chance and Isai Thorne was nowhere to be seen. A poor advertisement for development.

In reply to doosra

Nah. They need to find someone in Barbados to join the management team that knows the players, knows the game and has the influence to get the foreign owners to spend their money the right way.

In reply to SCC1

The Simmons thing is an all formats mystery. He burst on to the scene a few years ago in the PCL for Barbados .... took a bag of wickets and then made a good impression in his first CPL. Then he disappeared and even when he was included in squads like the Academy team he would hardly ever get selected. I hate to speculate but this time I got to conclude that it is an issue beyond the boundary.

How many players are from Manchester that plays for Man City? Franchise anything goes.

In reply to Logic

With the Royals losing match after match you really think he meant regional cricket?

In reply to Logic

I was going to respond to Jumpstart aka jumpfart, but he has eeloquenly decriped him.

The last u19 Bim players were Dorne. Morris,Prescott, Smith and King that dominated u19, u17 it was Carter , Dorne, Branch and the u15 it was Wiggins ., Parris and Hinds to name some of the young players that are coming through.

In reply to Logic

He had a stint with Paarl Royals in SA. At the end of the day it's a franchise, some look to develop their young players, while others are the opposite.

In reply to Logic
barbados barely made it to the super 50 semis last year and then lost to leewards by 155 runs......and LI is not a good side. they were slaughtered in the final. clearly something going on

you see why this is of concern to me is i still subscribe to the belief that a strong WI team will need to have good bajan players. not because god made them specifically to hold a bat or bowl a ball but its the only island where generally cricket does not have strong competition as a national pastime of sport, therefore, most of the cricketers in the region will be produced by Barbados

In reply to Jumpstart

no one is buying that explanation.

no one.

At least in 20 over cricket they have life in them

In reply to Jumpstart

This thread...

nuff said.

In the final Barbados had 5 players, when no other country had more, and 2 of them were at the wicket to get it done.

Shows that with Barbados not even playing nobody had more representation than them.

Barbados has depth in their cricket

In reply to Jumpstart

Can you name a CPL franchise without a Bajan player?
Even the TRF has one of the mediocre players.

In reply to openning

Guyana got Raymond Reifer even

look at that eh

There's an old saying "When Barbados is good, WI is good"

If this rings true, then WI have a something positive to look forward to

In reply to doosra

This should remind all you MB selectors that whoever the selectors are, Barbados players will be selected.
Where is the insularity with the selection of Bajans on every regional CPL team?

TKR Jordan and Parris

In reply to analyst-kid

Who does Jordan play for internationally?

In reply to imusic

England.
Don't fall asleep on me bro.
chris-jordan

In reply to openning

Its really endearing how you always take Imusic's questions at face value. Rhetorical, sardonic, sarcastic ...they are all the same to you . You are a good man.

That said, cricinfo could at least acknowledge Jordan's Charles F.B. and Waterford U education. He spent probably only a couple years at Dulwich. His formative education years was in Bim

In reply to Logic

Imusic is family.