Caribbean dilemma: club or country?
The inaugural edition of the Caribbean Premier League has the ingredients to make it successful, but Orville Higgins, in the Jamaica Gleaner, highlights some of the concerns he has about the format of the tournament.
ESPNcricinfo staff
09-Aug-2013
The inaugural edition of the Caribbean Premier League has all the ingredients to make it a success, but Orville Higgins, in the Jamaica Gleaner, highlights some of the concerns he has about the format of the tournament.
When I see Jamaica playing against Barbados, for example, in first-class cricket, I don't just see the game as merely a contest between two teams, but as a battle between two nations, where bragging rights and a feeling of national superiority, if only over four days, makes the game that much more meaningful.
It will take some time for me to watch two Bajans and a Trinidadian on a 'Jamaican' team and have the same tension and excitement about the result. Don't blame me for that. Almost three decades of watching and following regional cricket, where country takes on country, is in my blood, and has probably ruined me for life regarding the franchise system.