A potential collapse of Cricket West Indies
I have written so many words in the past in this column about the inability of Daren Sammy as a cricket coach that the actual repetition becomes farcical. Sammy believes that he is capable as a coach because he was captain of the WI T20 teams when they won the 2012 and 2016 finals of the World Cup.
He didn’t take into consideration that Marlon Samuels’ classical innings was the main architect of the 2012 victory against Sri Lanka, while the actual bludgeoning of England’s Benjamin Stokes’ medium-pace bowling for four consecutive sixes in the final over by Carlos Brathwaite in 2016, won the game for WI. Also, that has nothing to do with coaching.
The administration of West Indies cricket is so weak at present that should they continue, it would be the collapse of WI cricket as we have come to know it.Just imagine that although Sammy informed them that he never earned a coaching certificate, these administrators saw nothing wrong with that, believing that he would be a good coach because he won two T20 WC finals as captain. But we, the WI public, have to bear this shameful, regular loss of cricket matches, from Test cricket to limited-overs games, for the main reason that CWI does not know what they’re doing. Aren’t they ashamed?
Bryan Davis