Barbados isn’t losing its religion
Alex Brown, writing in the Sydney Morning Herald , speaks to Sir Garfield Sobers in Barbados before travelling around the island looking for signs of the game’s health.
Peter English
25-Feb-2013
Alex Brown, writing in the Sydney Morning Herald, speaks to Sir Garfield Sobers in Barbados before travelling around the island looking for signs of the game’s health.
“I keep hearing this all the time, that people have lost the passion for cricket in the region," Sobers says. "But that's not what I see at all. Everywhere, the game is being played. If cricket is fading, I must be silly."
An interesting take, and indeed a different viewpoint to the widely held notion of Caribbean cricket losing its foothold in a region rapidly succumbing to Americanisation. Could Sobers be right? Have reports of cricket's demise in the West Indies been exaggerated? With curiosity piqued, you hit the road in search of Sobers' Barbados. And before you've reached Bridgetown's city limits, you suspect he might be right.
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Peter English is former Australasia editor of ESPNcricinfo