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When your best batsman is a walking wicket...

Sun, Dec 14, '25 at 1:33 PM

....against pace bowling, what do you expect?

Sammy accepted a poisoned chalice and must have known that he was embarking on mission impossible.

The unvarnished truth is, our players lack the technical ability to play test cricket. A plethora of voices here have been syaing this.The board knows it...Sammy knows it...the whole world knows it yet we are attempting to bluff our way to a solution. In my best Jamaican accent: "Dat nah go happen."How can the Pesident of the CWI blame our lack of batting success or overall accomplishments on this tour on the absence of two leading fast bowlers?

A CWI President who cannot identify the problem does not deserve being at the helm of our cricket. His situation is further compounded by his recent distraction of being appointed Minister of Tourism. A newbie minister cannot function in his new capacity while at the same time give undivided attention to the problems which beset the management of any organisation.

Those who attempt to insulate the CWI President against any negative repercussions of holding two serious responsibilities are either naive or dumb. Please spare me your codswallop. It is not as if the CWI President has been doing an outstanding job and that he is indespensible...far from this, he is an adject failure.

Any evaluation of his tenure of leadshership will aasses his performance as abysmal.

There should be a deafening cry throughout the region to see the back of the CWI President pronto. In the words of one of our popular election campaign songs: "Kishore Shallow move from there." .

Sun, Dec 14, '25 at 4:41 PM

@Courtesy

another moronic post. WI, with a different batting lineup scored up until that point, the highest score in a day night test against australia on a very poor pitch at Brisbane. against the same attack that humiliated sammy's team, which was unrecognizable from that lineup that made 311 at Brisbane, for 27. stop trying to use propaganda to cover Sammy and his team's(except Ravi Rampaul, the bowling coach) failure as professional cricketers, as coaches and as men who clearly refuse to acknowledge their limitations as men, to the detriment of us ll.

Sun, Dec 14, '25 at 5:24 PM

@Jumpstart

You are such an intellectual midget.

Using your same logic then the 457 runs West Indies batsmen scored to save a test that was gone should receive similar commendation from you.

You are so intellectually challenged that you did not see my post was critical of the whole West Indies infrastructure.

Btw, do you know that one swallow does not make a summer?

Please do not respond to my post or come on this thread you do not deserve my attention.

You are also an insular ass.