The final nail in the Windies coffin
The grimmest and bleakest aspect of the revelations and implications of the dispute between the West Indies Cricket Board and the West Indies Players' Association, and the resulting loss to Bangladesh, is that West Indies Test cricket is dead, writes
Siddhartha Talya
25-Feb-2013
The grimmest and bleakest aspect of the revelations and implications of the dispute between the West Indies Cricket Board and the West Indies Players' Association, and the resulting loss to Bangladesh, is that West Indies Test cricket is dead, writes Vaneisa Baksh on the CarribbeanCricket.com website.
Details of this particular scenario are even more annoying because the WICB shamelessly instructs the hapless young players to invoke the name of Sir Frank Worrell to support their stance, when they know full well that Sir Frank would more likely have supported the idea that the WICB needs to honour agreements, negotiate in good faith and plan its business with acumen and not cunning. Sir Frank as educator would not have wanted to teach young players to disrespect the spirit of the game, nor would he have encouraged them to break solidarity with players like themselves. What happens now to those players after their horrible initiation
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This generation is not interested in playing Test matches. They don’t aspire to careers as Test players. They’re smitten by the excitement of Twenty/20; they’ve sniffed its lucre and have been fondled by its promise of glamour. Their world is one of instant gratification and giddiness. I
Siddhartha Talya is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo