debut: 11/30/17 3:11 PM
13,166 runs
In reply to Nazir
dead in the west indies certainly. it still seems very popular in places like SA and NZ(I mean outside the big three). its probably dead in pakistan as well. WI dies when the board failed to put structures in place to sustain success. I state the board because by the late 80s, when it was clear the golden era was coming to an end(and even that took years to end which just shows you how great, viv, greenidge, haynes, ambrose, bisop, walsh and lara were), every carribbean state was in the hands of the IMF. even if they wanted to build an academy, the structure of the loans just would not allow it. even Trinidad, then the only petro state was in the imf from 88-91. the board would have been the only people receiving revenue from tours, as the visiting board got part of the revenue from broadcasts and ticket stubs in those days(the 79 tour of australia saved the WICBC from insolvency for example and just think of how many times WI toured australia between 79/80 and 2000)). i find it unconscionable that either 1) none or too little money went into training and development or 2) if it did go, the results were atrocious because we went from viv and greenidge to dave joseph, lincoln roberts and suruj ragoonath by the end of the 90s. And as pakistan has shown, you don't need fancy equipment to uncover cricketers. just scouts and training camps. nobody in the WI has the money to put down something like what australia has done. so you have to adapt an indigenous solution to the issue of training and development
