Musings on West Indian Cricket…

West Indies….Champions Trophy
•••••Nobody has noticed that West Indies is not playing the Champions Trophy this season. Nobody is missing the West Indian team.

I was a young kid during the Clive Lloyd era and I have seen the pace bowling quartet of Marshal, Holding, Garner and Roberts followed by Ambrose and Walsh. They fired rockets at the batsman, one after another. I have seen Richards, Greenidge, Haynes and Lloyd bat with disdain against opposition bowlers.

The greatest thing about the West Indies team was that nobody hated them. Even the fans from opposition countries regaled in their cricketing aura. I was one of them. There was no shame in losing against Windies.

In 1970s, a man called Clive Lloyd travelled across the Windies islands and handpicked bowlers with spectacular pace and gave them shoot-at-sight orders on the cricket pitch. He unleashed a war against teams like Australia and England in which India also bore the brunt. All this and more is shown in a documentary called Fire in Babylon. If you don't know what cricket looked like without helmets and bouncer limits, watch the film.

What West Indies is missing today is not talent, they are missing a man like Clive Lloyd and his vision…..
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It does feel frikken hollow not having the WINDIANS whipping boys there to cuss at

In reply to Karma

Clive Lloyd would have been banished by the idiots in CWI if he had played today. Like every good WI cappo,(viv, gayle, Worrell), he was a rebel, exemplified by the Packer walkout. Under the current admin, and the one prior, probably not because they've really tried to player-first in their approach, which is why no schism has happened since 2019, but we must remember we had the worst WI admin's in our history bewtween 2007-2019 and it will take years to fully recover from that. Look at Brazil as a footballing powerhouse. Brazil still hasn't recovered from 7-1, even though it happened 11 years ago.

but we haven't been at the tournament since 2013. we were very unfortunate to be knocked out in 2013. we had a good, settled side. we fielded a 2nd string team in 2009 and we reached the finals of the 06 tourney and won the 2004 edition

In reply to Karma

If it makes you feel better believing that falsehood then go right ahead.

In reply to Halliwell


were you drunk when you wrote this? india had one hostile game vs the WI.....in 76...........and maybe we shouldn't have taken out our frustrations on kindred spirits...but it was one game. NZ suffered much more at west indian hands than india. and in one case, there was an indian batsman who could play the wi pacemen on their own wickets...Jimmy Aramanth. So too could sanjay mandrekar and ravi shastri. on the matter of no one missing the WI at this tournament, you're correct becausewe have not played in it since 2013. otherwise, totally wrong. World cricket has a critical imbalance by not having a strong WI team




imagine rugby trying to be a global sport but not having the all blacks......it sounds completely retarded but you guys know i always argue that the wi are responsible for their own woes