Bajan fans in English gear cheering on the England team

In reply to imusic

What about 1/2 Queens Park cheering for India, any comments .

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In reply to tc1

You obviously haven't read through the whole thread of the post

In reply to tc1

Big Up-special acknowledgement, ball guh to dem men cheer, nowl a bouncer men cheer. If bouncer got hooked guess who men cheer for? Malcolm. Ntini, Dean walk out to bat, big roar as if it was Big Cat
Gooch walk out? No Cheer. Yuh flag mention is a red herring

In reply to Brerzerk

Stop it man, the same thing, Are you not the same people that brought a White Australian and made cricket captain of Jamaica and had the good professor going crazy?

In reply to tc1

Breddrin a poll in Jamaica show Yardies prefer to be subjects of King Charles and the privy council than a republic.

Little England Bim said NO to all that bullshyte and raise the flags of the republic and ccj

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In reply to tc1

If Dallas Cowboys can be called America's team, what should the Barbados Pride be labelled?
Just check the number of Barbadians playing on all teams in the CPL and the ones contracted for regional tournaments

In reply to openning

In the past we could labelled as the supreme of cricket, however for the past 25 years Bim struggle to dominate consistently the region.

In reply to tc1

Even not winning, the team is consistently among the top three in Red Ball.
I was shocked seeing Barbadians playing on all teams in the CPL, especially a youngster opening for TRF.

In reply to openning

Parris strikes the ball cleanly and should be in the team red ball cricket, another player is 'Easy Kev'.

In reply to tc1

I hope to see Carty, Greaves and Wickham selected for the Bangladesh series.
A U19 allrounder caught my eye this year, I would enjoy seeing him next regional for the Pride.
Bim seems to be producing too many players that are neither bowlers nor batsmen.
Guys like Nyeem Young and Springer. should concentrate on his batting, they should develop one area.

In reply to openning

Too many bits and pieces allrounders in Bim at the moment.

Bim have always had many allrounders. Most of us have to learn all areas of the game to play. One skill usually overtakes at some point though. Guys are just identifying their strong points later in the process. That also is a testament to the fact that they play too little cricket at younger ages

In reply to seaegg99

T[b]hat also is a testament to the fact that they play too little cricket at younger ages

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I am not sure about the above statement, our youths play more cricket than in the past, in the past there was not any u13 or 16, all of us played u19.I remember as a 13 + player was forced to play against Cawmere team which had all u20 players. Including Sudden.
Today we play more organized cricket and many of our youth are exposed to touring places like the UK, SA etc . What has happened is IMO is the lack of good coaches, and I think our so call legends have failed us in this regard.

In reply to Chrissy

Book sense is not common sense.
Hope that you are satisfied with the responses.
Racism raised for no apparent cause, reason and rhyme.
We can learn to lose gracefully versus lashing out at spectators and their individual support.
Everyone is free to support the team of their choice.

In reply to tc1

Cricket used to be played on any open space in Bim back in the day. I still remember playing in the village streets and knowing if you hit the house right in front of you on the full you were out. Simple things on footwork and hand eye coordination you developed when young. A youth with say KB skillset would be peppered with short pitched bowling, even with the wind ball, until he developed some way of countering it. Yet these youths now reach high level cricket with weaknesses that should have been ironed out before.

Yes more touring and the like but how much cricket outside of school do you see in Bim when you are there? WI never used to complain about surfaces because you played on any kind of surface you found to play on. You just adapted your game to the surface and surroundings.

In reply to seaegg99

On my visit to Bim a couple years ago, the only kids I saw playing cricket were the kids about 11 years at my gf family place, her nephew and niece, I joined them and 'pelt' a few and I was surprised to see that the girl was a better player than the boy.
Yes, you right that we played more village cricket as kids growing up and had to respond to short pitch bowling and bowling at your leg which taught you to play off the pads with authority. KB and many other could survived under those condition.

In reply to tc1

You can compare the development of players who have left the Island and become pros in England.
Every one of them becomes a student-athlete.

Cricket on the Island is still at the amateur level. None of the 19-year-olds are student-cricketers, who spend 4 hours on education and 3-4 hours on cricket development.
Jacob Bethell is paid to play cricket for Warwickshire, and Kevin Wickham pays Empire to play.
Cricket is a professional sport.
One of the various reasons why Barbados has not produced a truly great in over 25 years.

In reply to openning

It would be very difficult to implement a professional set up in Bim as the small economy might prohibit it on a full scale, if a good amateur program is in place at local level and we continue to give national contracts to 15-20 players per year, we might become competitive. For e.g. the NCAA is an amateur system until recently.