by SHAM SAMAROO

The music of "Force Ripe," the number one sound system in Guyana, could not soothe the pain of another hopeless, uninspiring, spiritless, and shamefully disappointing performance by the West Indies against Sri Lanka. With the loss to South Africa last Tuesday, their fourth consecutive of the Super Eight, West Indies have all but been eliminated from the semifinals.

So what is this malaise that seems to paralyze West Indies cricket? Mind you, this is not about West Indies losing, but rather the manner in which they have played time and again. Let's face it; there are teams in this tournament that are no more talented than the West Indians yet have demonstrated a collective resolve and a self belief that are so often missing from the West Indies game.
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I have great difficulty to find any areas of disagreement with what Mr. Samaroo has said

In reply to Dukes

You sound disappointed.....

It is so sad that no one can find anything nice to say about our world cup either on the field or off it.

Dat farce of an opening ceremony blighted de whole damn World Cup

In reply to Narper With some spelling mistakes you could have said

:wink:

I didn't like the world cup opening ceremony but never realised much worse was to follow :( :(

In reply to Narper

Strange, but most objective observers believe that the magnificent opening ceremony, and those 3 first round games, represented the crest of a swirling wave of optimism that swept the Caribbean at the start of the World Cup.

Since those heady days in Jamaica, it has been all down hill!!!

How many of WI fans agree with this? I would say the majority. A few LBLs and LBAs may not agree.

In reply to Narper


Sorry you guys did not get " more hand in the air shit"

In reply to jacksprat ... and I add "... all downhill, faas faas" a almost broke me neck a jump off the wagon the way it a go downhill suh faas.

Nice piece, in all honesty I was one who thought the opening ceremony was done well, however I do agree not giving some formal recognition to our former great was a big mistake.

Maybe just maybe they will make amends in the closing ceremony.

Wesley

This is just another display of opportunism by someone who managed to write all of that without having an inkling as to why the Wi cricketers play so badly sometimes...most of the time.

It's the usual Brian Lara this...the players that...Ken Gordon the other..rehashing of "feelings" and opinion, bitching around the problem without making any effort to really troubleshoot it..to analyze and detect what's wrong and how it can be fixed.

Why can't Admin gather up all these pieces of fairly useless columns and put them in one macco thread so we can get it over with once and for all?

Why the daily injection of another person's diatribe to follow yesterday's and the day before?

Is it that our appetites for that kind of bitching and whining cannot be satiated by 2, 3 or 4 such repetitive diatribes?

Ryan, I've had enough. You killing we slowly with dogs in the manger whimpering.

Give it a facting rest and put something constructive on the front page instead.

In reply to redbaron



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_ryan

You have to ask why the so-called directors have been so complict in allowing this flagrant abuse to continue unabated. Obviously they have their collective snouts in the trough.