HEADLINE: ICC chair advocates breaking up of West Indies cricket

Jamaica

King
Campbell
McKenzie/Blackwood
Bonner/ Jordan Johnson
Powell
Walton
Allen
Glenn/Royal
O Smith/ Mansingh/ R Lewis
Mindley
Shields

AYuh think it bad now, wait till go it alone start

In reply to ray

At least Guyana will beat Brazil, Venezuela and Surinam and even Mexico

Check who playing here

In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

HOW THE HELL THE WEST INDIES MORE SUSTAINABLE AS MIDDLE INCOME TO POOR CRICKETING NATIONS? dude whole prejudiced petticoat showing big time.

In reply to Narper

In reply to mikelegend

dat team can't beat Thailand in a cricket match

Man this guy jeremy smh i hope the guyana government paying you good money

In reply to FanAttick


that dude became one of the many malignant tumors in west indies cricket

Antigua and Barbuda

K James
R Cornwall
J Andrew
K Henry
K Gore
H Walsh
A Joseph
K Pitman
M Greaves
G Williams
J Spencer

In reply to ray

Well, expectations will be much less and we will start at the bottom instead of making our way there slowly and surely!

Who is Greg Barclay?

Greg Barclay is a Canadian- New Zealand Sports Administrator who was the ICC chief. I suggest he does some more research as the highlighted is an ignorant assertion:

What they’ve achieved in cricket is phenomenal when you think that they are a group of disparate islands that don’t really have anything in common, other than cricket, and yet they’ve held themselves together for that period of time as the West Indies.

I guess he never heard of Caricom , OECS, Eastern Caribbean dollar, Slavery, colonialism? Anyone can see what he is trying to do here the old divide and destroy trick. So West Indies cannot survive financially and competitively on its own but the individual islands can? The same challenges of T20 freelance leagues will become even more a challenge as I doubt that any of these cricketing islands on their own will ever gain Test status in the next 20-30 years.

In reply to mikelegend
M GREAVES and G Williams who are they?

Not interested.

In reply to voiceofreason

Give me two more names…

In reply to FanAttick

Also music to my ear, long over due too much insularity ,dirty politricks and incompetent baboons running west indies cricket

i would prefer live and die with my last place island team. now i can feel some pride and choke up when I hear my national anthem

West indies cricket has being a misnomer for many years now. it is about time this "feeding at the trough band" get disbanded

The tail has being wagging the dog for too long

This guy is a shithong. Suggesting a bunch of stuff while leaving. Did nothing while there.

Black people unite!

In reply to voiceofreason


he isn't making an iota of sense. just another idiot trying to make cricket smaller and more elitist. problem is that for 15 years, a proletariat side was the greatest team in the history of team sports. No football team in the 80s was as good as the WI, perhaps brazil 82 had the skills and swagger, but they didn't have the success. Argentina was a one man army. the lakers could be beaten by the celtics. not even the all blacks in the 80s were as good as the WI. Its an unprecedented achievement

Americans don't know about cricket, but this is an article by an american website on the most dominant sports teams. here is there description on the WI


https://www.thetoptens.com/sports/most-dominant-sports-teams/

The late 70s-90s team is the closest thing to a dynasty that cricket has seen

In reply to voiceofreason

I too was particularly pissed by his suggestion that we are a bunch of islands with nothing in common besides cricket......then i read some of the comments here including the obligatory attack on Barbados.... and accepted that more and more divides us that unites us.

If his tactic was to divide and rule it is working a peach

In reply to Jumpstart

Yes you are onto something there. These guys are still smarting that an all black/East Indian team, descendants of slaves and indentured laborers could dominate the game the Slave masters/ Colonialists taught them. Not just 2 years but 2 decades. They do not want to see WI ever dominate like that again so give them a mere 5% of the profit share and tempt their star players with freelance leagues all over the world as WI simply cannot pay them.

What about suggesting a greater share of the revenues as a stronger WI team is good for World Cricket? You know how many were ecstatic when WI win that Test vs Oz to draw the series? There was such an enthusiasm spike that day 3 of the English test the next summer was sold out.

In reply to Logic All I want to know is how a Man like Barclay who I doubt has ever spent more than a month or two at a time can lecture us about the Caribbean and what ails our cricket team. I consider that to be an offense and if he were still the ICC Chief I believe he would have been made to apologise. While he was the chief what did he do to s
top India from taking over the council and benefiting from 40% of its revenues? What has he done to champion for more revenue for the poorer nations to ensure a competitive world product ?

Here he is admitting his failure to rein in India's powers:


Barclay departs

As much as I champion fair selection and opportunity for players from the smaller islands Leewards and Windwards I would never suggest once that we go it alone. To each is own.

In reply to velo



READ
The world bank in Guyana

In reply to Logic

Agreed with yiu and VOR sentimenta. Look how he throw the bone and have the dogs fighting. Typically of well nah. I'll be banned from here if I type it. So.. a gone.
But so typical, would really be nice to say what he has dine in the 3 years since he's been leading the ICC but given India more of the pie then say WI getting less than 5 percent of the share. That happened under his watch.
But then again some of us need to be told what to do and how to feel about each other from Massa.
A stop a gone now for real.

In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com
Someone should tell Greg dat Guyana is not an island. the ICC