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Sat, May 23, '26 at 10:19 AM

Ah laughing at the low stocks man. He will never recover from this ordeal.

All aspects of cricket need serious regular fine tuning.

Those of us who have played cricket know this...

Let me laugh again.

😀😀😀

Sat, May 23, '26 at 10:24 AM

I am so happy that Nicholas Pooran has failed in IPL. Declining stocks will be the order of the day.

Let me quote a regular poster here: "watch de ride.".

Hahaha!!

😀😀😀

Sat, May 23, '26 at 10:51 AM

@Courtesy

You still watching that nonsense!

I’ve came to the realization that I prefer to watch the traditional game over this crap!

Much more satisfying.

Sat, May 23, '26 at 11:05 AM

@StumpCam

I usually watch on weekends...like you, the traditional game is my preferred option.

Needless to say I like when cricketers who have turned their backs on West Indies cricket fail BIGLY in the various circuses.

Sat, May 23, '26 at 12:27 PM

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When a player has already secured millions of dollars and set up their family for generations, a bad two-month stretch of cricket is just a bump in the road, not a life-altering tragedy. Even the greatest athletes in sports history, from Virat Kohli to LeBron James, have faced brutal slumps where the media and fans wrote them off.

The best players use a failure like this as a wake-up call to fix technical flaws. For an explosive batsman like Poo, a poor season usually means bowlers figured out a specific weakness.The beauty of modern T20 cricket is that the next tournament is always just around the corner. He won't have to wait a year to prove his critics wrong

At 30 years old, Poo is right in his athletic prime. History shows that write-offs usually fuel the most explosive comebacks.

When a West Indian cricketer looks at these numbers, the choice is clear. Nicholas Pooran can make ten times his annual international salary in just two months playing in India. If he layers that with stints in the Caribbean Premier League (CPL), UAE's ILT20, and the USA's Major League Cricket, he can comfortably clear $3 million to $4 million USD a year as a free agent.

Expecting a young athlete to turn down millions of dollars to play for a board that has historically struggled with administration and basic player relations is simply unrealistic.: Players earn a few thousand dollars per international match, but this requires being selected, staying injury-free, and spending up to 10 months a year on the road away from family.

Sarge