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Where is the British West Indian fan?

There has been a sharp fall in the number of British West Indian supporters in England grounds and David Conn of The Guardian believes cricket is certainly no longer the glue binding the community together

There has been a sharp fall in the number of British West Indian supporters in England grounds and David Conn of The Guardian believes cricket is certainly no longer the glue binding the community together. He quotes a fan:

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I used to go to The Oval in the 1970s and 1980s and there were massed ranks of fans, banging tin cans and beating rhythms out, there for the love of the game and pride in the West Indies. We loved it, as second generation immigrants. We didn't quite fit in here, we put up with a lot of racism, and here was our team, coming over and stuffing England. I grew up with parents who called Trinidad home; maybe young black people now don't feel that same affinity.

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Nishi Narayanan is a staff writer at ESPNcricinfo