HEADLINE: Cricket West Indies thanks Nicholas Pooran for his service

Cricket West Indies extends sincere gratitude and appreciation to Nicholas Pooran for his outstanding contributions to West Indies cricket. Nicholas officially informed the leadership of his decision to retire from international cricket, bringing to a close a significant chapter in his career.

A world-class player and a game changer, Nicholas leaves the game as the most capped West Indian in T20 Internationals with 106 matches and the leading T20I run scorer with 2,275 runs. His performances on the field and influence within the team have made a lasting impact on West Indies cricket.

We salute his achievements and thank him for the moments he has given fans across the region and beyond. We wish him all the very best in the next phase of his journey.

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In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

A forced and insincerely written "tribute"

Pooran is not keen on playing under Sammy's coaching!

In reply to CaribbeanCricket.com

Thanks for what? Never scored a meaningful run even in the slog cricket for which he is famous.
Surely the guy has enough money made playing all that meaningless league cricket, most of which are glorified betting.
Saw him speak a couple of times, very unimpressive character, not the brightest.

Man running from Scammy?

In reply to GMA


if it was a choice between making millions of dollars and a west indies team that is content with constant humiliations, I would chose the money. i think any intelligent person would chose that

Let’s not be confused, this decision has nothing to do with the current Board, who is the coach etc etc. This is a decision made by a man who does not need West Indies Cricket and in fact never has. He was the birth of what many a coach and cricketer aspired to be be part of a decade ago. A freelance gun for hire in the wild Wild West.

The problem is, a decade on, the leagues no longer seek after West Indians as their poster boys/gun slingers and there is currently a rebirth in international cricket.

Pooran has come, now has has gone and nothing has changed in any way shape or form except a whole generation of West Indian cricketers will still be lost aimlessly chasing the wind, or is it, whirlwind? I’d guess that despite the brave heart utterances this means nothing, and for me, pretty much the same. We however live in a time where the size of a wallet and the need to be relevant by association will say otherwise.

In reply to GMA

We may not all like and gravitate to the T20 version of the game but 'Meaningless ?'
That is downright wrong and callous a term for what is the bread basket of the
entire Game's health, financial and future./
You have surprised me.

In reply to mkcharles


What rebirth? dude, they're planning to split international cricket into two tiers starting from 2027 with the West Indies(whose only competitive advantage was consistently beating every opposition we faced, which we lost 30 years ago this year) firmly in the cellar tier with the likes of afganistan, zimbabwe, ireland and bangladesh, the only long time full member to suffer this indignity. It says a lot of about our lack of effort in the ensuing 30 years since our unbeaten run ended where Matthew Hayden, a legend of the game himself, had to begging the world not to forget the West Indies today. People like Hayden, Ponting, Langer etc grew up idolizing the West Indies. That generation comprises of people who are now in their 50s and are pushing 60. The The millennial generation does not idolize the West Indies and for generation z, the west indies is a formerly great team their grandparents saw. And the WI haven't recognized that. I agree with pooran. maximize your earnings. West Indies cricket is not getting better and it has no interest in improving

In reply to Jumpstart

I can’t think of any Indian, Australian, English, or New Zealand star player that selfishly resigned from their international team and then suit up for franchise cricket.
I have said before and was severely criticized but I will say it again. I strongly believe that if a player doesn’t want to play for West Indies he shouldn’t be allowed to participate in any form of cricket in the region and if he is to play franchise cricket he should agree for a 50% pay cut for using our facilities. I just feel we need to put something in place to ensure that willing to play for WI should be a criteria for playing franchise cricket

In reply to Jumpstart

International cricket will be played with or without West Indies cricket in places where people of all types will pay good money to see. Persons speak of West Indies with a nostalgia of a bygone time but nothing more. Where has the tangible support been for more than two decades? Matthew Hayden can cry more than any born West Indian? Man you is plenty joke.

If we then accept that no one will help us, then do we not help ourselves, and if so, how is this achieved? Pooran is, an never has been of any beneficial value to West Indies Cricket other than a few smacks at the crease and that is his choice.

For me though, anyone who wears the badge has an obligation to meaningfully represent everything that has brought an institution to that point, in that time. It doesn’t matter if it’s imperfect, it doesn’t matter if it’s difficult and yes sacrifices always have to be made, even monitarily.

I won’t expect most to get it because it’s easy to ride on the sweat of others and have some sense of entitlement, when everything was exactly prepared for you. Thank You Nicolas Pooran. The end.

In reply to Sylobaby

india australia and england are very rich boards and new zealand cricket has been doing very well in the last 25 years . the NZ team has never been a side in that latter half of the rankings in the last 25 years. they had one period, lasting about two years between 2010 and 2012 where they were wracked by infighting and it showed in the results. It wasn't a 30 year decline. West Indies has gone from #1 in 1995 to #3 in 1999 to people openly questioning their relevance to the international game today

In reply to mkcharles


uhhhh yeah. west indians are too wracked by insularity to care about the legacy of the team. Winston benjamin said as recently as this year that he could see antigua and barbados playing by themselves and tino has openly said that he would love to see the islands go it alone. West Indians have ceased to care about the product even though verbally they may say otherwise.

In reply to Jumpstart

That's right....

It's the poor cricket teams that suffer. Pooran prematurely retired from international cricket, and before him, Klaasen prematurely retired from international cricket.

But this is what the Big Three wanted. All the money for themselves. They should be happy.

In reply to mikesiva

No sport occurs without players…that’s why the IPL largely imported as a startup until…these players are facilitators on behalf of the same big 3. They are lessons to be learnt from the supposed lockouts in American Baseball, Basketball etc.