Jumpstart: Bajan Jacob 16 million yearly by 2030
@Castled
Does not surprise me. Cricket is becoming more like club football, which ain’t a bad thing. Cricketers have been criminally underpaid for decades. Packer started it and the IPL is finishing it
@Jumpstart
I am not surprise either but I would be cautious saying criminally underpaid, while this has merit, in the past cricket wasn't played in lucrative markets, India was a sleeping giant and an average team back then. Added to that, the test format was not commercially viable. However, times has changed, T20 has arrived and is here to stay, it is a commercially viable product, and India with their vast market has woken up, all this has open the door to franchises, confirming Packer's vision was correct. Today all the ducks have lined up so cricketers are finally getting their worth in some places. sadly not in the Caribbean, we are always late to the party. Nonetheless the question remains is how can we get our players to enjoy such benefits while maintaining competitiveness in the cricket world, this is question we have not answered
we need to be able to export players while our bench strength is strong enough not to miss them when they playing in these lucrative leagues
@hawk
Reason I said underpaid is that there were profitable tours even in the days of viv in the 70s. That’s why Packer was able to divide world cricket in two and eventually win. The Ashes Boxing Day test of 1974 attracted 250,000 people across the five days, and the test attendance ticket cos was one Australian dollar, meaning the ACB won earned quarter of a million dollars for that test alone. The Australian players were paid 200 dollars each out of total, England players were paid the same. And the broadcast was subsidized by the state broadcaster. The rest of that money went to board members who lived much better than the players. Ian Chappell said Don Bradman, the ACB president, treated the ACB money, which was earned by the players as if it was his money. And in those days both the NZ and Australian dollars were hard currency, whereas only the AU is hard currency today
@Jumpstart
You best posts you omitted the usual BS to validate wicked role of tit mercs in downgrade of WI cricket
@Castled
Dais because CWI did a good job of that themselves. Look at allyuh deity Tony Cozier writing on the so called tit mercenaries
As impressively composed off the field as on it, Daren Ganga has made a few significant and obviously deliberate points as his amazing Trinidad & Tobago (T&T) team has overcome one supposedly superior opponent after another on their way to the semi-finals of the high-profile Champions League Twenty20 in India
We're not just representing T&T, but the entire West Indian public and cricketing fraternity know that we're here representing them as well," he told Cricinfo. "This is virtually a West Indian team representing the entire region. As much as we want to do well for T&T, we have a bigger role in terms of representing the entire West Indies."
It is a mantra he has repeated at the presentation ceremony following every stunning triumph.
"This is for the people of Trinidad and Tobago and, by extension, the West Indies," he said after the gripping last-ball victory over the Deccan Chargers, the IPL champions, no less, with formidable names like Adam Gilchrist, VVS Laxman, Andrew Symonds, Scott Styris, RP Singh and Fidel Edwards in their ranks.
And, in case anyone missed his purpose, he added: "...especially with the crap in West Indies cricket."
allyuh still stuck in the days where you think a cricketer is a hotel staff or unemployed and you’re employing a person who isn’t highly skilled.
there are some people who are not committed to the Caribbean for a number of reasons. Race, personal slights etc. the Trinidad team of Darren Ganga was not one of those.
@Jumpstart
Jumpy...
(Castled) Che is from Grenada , they just gave him temporary residence in Barbados.
Che biggest claim to fame is Grenada's nutmeg tree climbing champ.😳
@Castled
The tit mercs are long gone, retired, banned, fired, or unselected
the authority is packed with active, radical anti-merc, real-cricket men
yet still the ship heading dung
@Halliwell
I have an analogy for you, how long do you think it will take to fix America when Trump decides to leave office? Where will America be trending after?
@WIfan26
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wid all jew respek
that’s a BS analogy
when Drumph leaves office the only way is up, and if is not then proves that he wasn’t the problem or rhetorical successors even more incompetent
what was the average of the top 5 Test batsmen when the mercs was in play
and what is it now