debut: 2/16/17
39,840 runs
The last safe haven of unaccountable power in sport..Dinas Ramnarine
Cricket, once the pride of our region and the heartbeat of our people, is being quietly strangled—not by a lack of talent or fan support, but by leadership structures so deeply flawed they no longer serve the game.Across several regional cricket boards, governance has collapsed into something more dangerous than incompetence: entitlement without accountability.Where else in public life can you fail repeatedly, spend public funds with zero oversight, produce embarrassing results—and still keep your job, year after year? In cricket administration, failure is not only tolerated; it is protected and even rewarded.Board members pay themselves what they want, select players based on personal loyalty rather than merit, and treat national team results as irrelevant. Whether we win, lose, or are completely humiliated on the international stage, the outcome is the same: they stay in power
“Selection is subjective,” they claim. But that’s just code for “we choose who we want.” Promising young players are sidelined, veterans discarded, and anyone who dares question the system is punished. Alternative views are met not with reform—but with exclusion or punishment! And when we suffer defeats—not by a few runs, but crushing losses like 100-run demolitions by teams like the USA—there’s no introspection, no accountability. No one steps aside. The same faces remain, making the same excuses, drawing from the same failed playbook.
More recently, the situation has gone from bad to worse. A heart wrenching loss to Australia—yet another in a string of heavy defeats—was followed by an all-time low, as our team was bowled out for a paltry 27 runs, the second-lowest score in the entire history of Test cricket. That is not only disastrous, it is disheartening and sad. And yet, somehow, we’re expected to carry on as if this is normal. It is not. These are the consequences of a broken system—one that no longer produces world-class players, but instead exposes them unprepared to the world stage.
Cricket, once the pride of our region and the heartbeat of our people, is being quietly strangled—not by a lack of talent or fan support, but by leadership structures so deeply flawed they no longer serve the game.Across several regional cricket boards, governance has collapsed into something more dangerous than incompetence: entitlement without accountability.Where else in public life can you fail repeatedly, spend public funds with zero oversight, produce embarrassing results—and still keep your job, year after year? In cricket administration, failure is not only tolerated; it is protected and even rewarded.Board members pay themselves what they want, select players based on personal loyalty rather than merit, and treat national team results as irrelevant. Whether we win, lose, or are completely humiliated on the international stage, the outcome is the same: they stay in power
“Selection is subjective,” they claim. But that’s just code for “we choose who we want.” Promising young players are sidelined, veterans discarded, and anyone who dares question the system is punished. Alternative views are met not with reform—but with exclusion or punishment! And when we suffer defeats—not by a few runs, but crushing losses like 100-run demolitions by teams like the USA—there’s no introspection, no accountability. No one steps aside. The same faces remain, making the same excuses, drawing from the same failed playbook.
More recently, the situation has gone from bad to worse. A heart wrenching loss to Australia—yet another in a string of heavy defeats—was followed by an all-time low, as our team was bowled out for a paltry 27 runs, the second-lowest score in the entire history of Test cricket. That is not only disastrous, it is disheartening and sad. And yet, somehow, we’re expected to carry on as if this is normal. It is not. These are the consequences of a broken system—one that no longer produces world-class players, but instead exposes them unprepared to the world stage.
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