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When is enough enough!?

Islander 4/16/25, 7:49:09 PM
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debut: 6/10/19
133 runs

'The Rum Shop' notwithstanding, every so often I would visit this site and be informed or entertained. I visit less often now because the level of insight has dropped precipitously. This is not meant to be an insult to fellow posters, but the coincidence of the cricketing morass in which we find ourselves is inescapable.
"....who woulda thunk it" Darren Sammy; who - at best - is of average intelligence and cricketing skills is now making decisions for CWI.

Where are the thoughtful Administrators in the WI? Our cricketers continue to do blatantly dumb things, and lack ANY degree of professionalism. Watch them bat, in the field or bowling.....they are often lackadaisical and downright nonchalant. Sadly, most of our shortcomings are due to our players not independently honing their craft . We can hardly find a pace bowler who can place the ball consistently in the same area. THIS IS SIMPLY SOLVED BY CULTIVATING MUSCLE MEMORY, which requires our bowlers to independently going into the nets to improve their skills. Steph Curry would tell of practicing thousands of 3 pointers every day. Shivnarine Chanderpaul talked of hours of lonely practice in the nets.

We need to make noise about this celebrated mediocrity in which we find ourselves.
sgtdjones 4/16/25, 10:07:57 PM
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debut: 2/16/17
39,040 runs

In reply to Islander

The sun too hot to practice

To get into shape is too hard.

We love swinging for cow corner

We are slowly turning the corner; you are asking for things too quickly.

CARICOM is gonna help CWI...oh gawd

So now where do you see mediocrity above ?

CWI doesn't have to answer questions.

Now, which island are you from again?
Coz you posted two threads with teh same thing....lol
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Islander 4/17/25, 2:17:13 AM
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debut: 6/10/19
133 runs

Perhaps if you stuck to the substance you'd be Lieutenant not Sgt. after 8 yrs. rolleyes
sgtdjones 4/17/25, 2:20:53 AM
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debut: 2/16/17
39,040 runs

.....I didnt want a NATO code of OF-1....

Gosh, you islanders are quite touchy.cool
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natty_forever 4/17/25, 2:28:14 AM
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debut: 4/28/03
60,362 runs

Well looking at the world as a whole...
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SnoopDog 4/17/25, 2:51:45 PM
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debut: 1/24/04
16,172 runs

In reply to Islander

Shivnarine Chanderpaul talked of hours of lonely practice in the nets.


This current generation of WI players practices for long hours in bars and rumshops in addition to long hours on Instagram and Facebook.
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